Markus Mattmüller

He studied history as well as German and Italian language and literature at the universities of Basel and Perugia before he passed the Mittellehrerexamen in 1957.

From 1969 to 1992, he was an ordinary professor of General and Swiss Modern History at the University of Basel.

He was one of the pioneering social historians of German-speaking Switzerland alongside Rudolf Braun and Erich Gruner [de].

Among other things, he oversaw research works on demography and agricultural history of the Ancien Régime, as well as on the labour movement.

He was a Constituent Councillor of both Basel cantons from 1960 to 1969, and a judge at the Civil Court from 1964 to 1967.