1849 in Switzerland

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1849 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Ulrich Ochsenbein
• Jonas Furrer (President)
• Josef Munzinger
• Henri Druey
• Friedrich Frey-Herosé
• Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
• Stefano Franscini

Events

• A uniform postal service, the Swiss Post, is introduced.
• The Museum of Cultures is established

Births

• January 30 – Josef Anton Schobinger, politician (died 1911)
• March 28 – August Fetscherin, physician (died 1882)
• April 12 – Albert Heim, geologist (died 1937)
• April 24 – Alfred Kleiner, physicist (died 1916)
• May 19 – Adrien Lachenal, politician (died 1918)
• May 22 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (died 1913)
• July 13 – Eugen Huber, jurist and creator of the Swiss Civil Code (died 1923)
• December 29 – Otto Stoll, linguist and ethnologist (died 1922)

No known date

• Albert Butz, Swiss-American inventor and businessman (died 1905)

Deaths

• January 6 – Johann Caspar von Orelli, Swiss classical scholar (born 1787)
• May 18 – Samuel Amsler, Swiss engraver (b. 1791)
• August 12 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American politician (born 1761)
• October 25 – Édouard Bovet, Swiss watchmaker (born 1797)
• November 13 – Marie Manning, Swiss domestic servant and murderer (born 1821)
• November 14 – Karl Adams, Swiss mathematician (born 1811)
• December 27 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss animal and landscape painter (born 1767)

No known date

• Frédéric Fregevize, Swiss landscape painter (born 1770)

References