Louis Vulliemin

Louis Vulliemin (7 September 1797, in Yverdon-les-Bains – 10 August 1879, in Lausanne) was a Swiss theologian and historian.

He was educated at Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi's institute in Yverdon, then studied theology at the Academy of Lausanne, being ordained as a pastor in 1821.

From 1847 to 1864 he was also a professor of theology to the faculty of the Free Evangelical Church in Lausanne.

[1] He was a founding member and first president of the Société d'histoire de la Suisse Romande (1837–55).

[1] With Charles Monnard, he published a French translation and continuation of Johann von Müller's Geschichten schweizerischer Eidgenossenschaft with the title Histoire de la Confédération suisse (18 volumes, 1837–51).

Louis Vulliemin