Reinhardt, Heinrich

REINHARDT, HEINRICH. - Swiss historian, b. 10 Dec. 1855 at Olten, d. 6 Dec. 1906 at Fribourg in Switzerland.

A lecturer in history at the Lucerne Higher School from 1878 to 1889, then professor of contemporary history at Fribourg, he was also, in 1890-91, rector of that University. He devoted himself above all to the history of Catholic Switzerland in the 16th and 17th centuries. He edited the edition of the correspondence of Alfonso and Girolamo Casati with Archduke Leopold V of Austria (Die Korrespondenz von Alfonso und Girolamo Casati mit Erzherzog Leopold V. von Österreich 1620-23, 1894) and together with F. Steffens began in 1906 the Nuntaturberichte aus der Schweiz, with the dispatches of the nuncio G. F. Bonhomini in the years 1579-81. He published, besides essays on the conditions of Switzerland at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Bündner Wirren 1618-20, 1881; Der Veltliner Mord 1620, 1885), studies on Switzerland in the time of Charles Borromeo (Studien zur Geschichte der katholischen Schweiz im Zeitalter Carlo Borromeos, 1901).

Silvio Furlani