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Last Name Dür

Given Name Samuel Gabriel Alexandre

alt. Names S. G A. D. ; Alex Dür ;

Marriage Anne Marie Françoise Testaz in 1850 ;

Children Isaac Louis Henri (*1851), pharmacist & lecturer at the École Industrielle de Lausanne

Year born 1813

Year died 1866

Place of death Lausanne

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education studies at Académie d.Belles Lettres Lausanne 1831/32; military; 1839- engineer & sworn field surveyor superintendent (commissaire arpentueur juré)

Country of Activity Switzerland

Worked for Jean de Charpentier: plates in his "Essai sur les Glacier et sur le Terrain Erratique du Bassin du Rhône" ;

Patronage military training at Swiss Federal General Staff ;

Collaborators Rinaldo Bressani (1803-1864) ;

Techniques geological drawing and engraving ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources Archives Cantonales Vaudoise (ACV) Eb 15/10,p.83; K XIX 29/51,p.261; Bdd 109/8; K XV b 10/2,p.152 & K XV b 10/3,p.192; K VII g 12/2, N. 1000 ; ...

Published sources L'annuaire officiel du canton de Vaud 1845-47; Jaun, Rudolf: Das eidgenössische Generalstabskorps 1804-74. Eine kollektiv-biographische studie, Basle and Franfurt on the Main 1983, p 48. Conc. his son: Jean-Marc Spothelfer: Les Zofingiens. Livre d'or de la Section vaudoise, Yens-sur-Morges 1995:108

other Entry provided by Dr. Tobias Krüger.

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