1890 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1890 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet (president)
• Bernhard Hammer (until December), then Emil Frey
• Karl Schenk
• Emil Welti
• Numa Droz
• Adolf Deucher
• Walter Hauser

Births

• 3 February – Paul Scherrer, physicist (died 1969)
• 15 September – Frank Martin, composer (died 1974 in the Netherlands)
• 22 September – Ferdinand Gonseth, mathematician and philosopher (died 1975)
• Rudolf Bosshard, rower (died 1980)

Deaths

• 3 November – Ulrich Ochsenbein, politician (born 1811)
• 11 November – Frédéric Guillaume de Pury, Swiss-Australian winemaker (born 1831)

References