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Also Known As Han Conrad Escher
Born August 24, 1767 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died March 9, 1823 (aged 55) • Zürich • Switzerland
Title / Office president (1798-1799), Helvetic Republic
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Swiss architect
Frédéric-César de La Harpe
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Peter Ochs
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Aloys Reding
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Johannes Grubenmann
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Hans Ulrich Grubenmann
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Jean Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist
Charles Bally
Swiss philologist
Théophile Bonet
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Nikolaus I Bernoulli
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Jacques Herzog
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Le Corbusier
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Paul Klee
Paul Klee
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Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych Zwingli
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Jacob Burckhardt
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Karl Barth
Karl Barth
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portrait of Germaine de Staël
Germaine de Staël
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Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
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