The founder of direct democracy
14 June 2019
One hundred years ago, on 6 March 1866, Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler, one of the founders of modern Switzerland, died. He was born in Beromünster in 1780. He left his post in the Napoleonic administration of the Helvetic Republic at the age of nineteen to study in Jena. He was successful in ophthalmology in Göttingen. … Read more » “The founder of direct democracy”