Arts and Humanities Commons^™

Obituaries

Swiss American Historical Society Review

On January 12, 1996, Hans Rudolf Guggisberg, professor emeritus of the University of Basel, died unexpectedly of a heart attack. On December 15, 1995, he had given his farewell lecture at the University in which he defined himself as a "student of history," as someone for whom personal as well as professional life was as much a process of continued learning as it was of teaching. He had specialized in the history of tolerance in the sixteenth century, especially as promoted by the theologian Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563) who had joined John Calvin at Strasbourg and Geneva; after theological disagreements with …