Samuel Henzi

He is chiefly known for his role in the "Henzi conspiracy" of June 1749, which aimed to overthrow the patrician government of Bern.

In his position as a copyist and bookkeeper at the Bern salt chamber, he was self-taught and possibly taught the patrician daughter Julie Bondeli as a private tutor.

In the hope of a career and fortune, he bought himself a captain's position in the service of the Duke of Modena and Reggio, but failed miserably.

[1] In 1744, Samuel Henzi, who had signed a memorial for the restoration of Bern's old constitution, was expelled by resolution of the country's Great Council.

From 1747 he published the three-volume La messagerie de Pinde, which contains an ode and a sonnet on the election of the Bernese mayor Christoph Steiger.

The group was betrayed by the theology student Friedrich Ulrich (1720-1781) and Henzi was executed along with the two other participants, Samuel Niklaus Wernier and Emanuel Fueter, lieutenant of the city guard.

The directory for bankruptcy auction [Geltstagsrodel] listed among his remains 52 titles of books in German, French, Italian and Latin.

Güldin was removed from office in 1699 as a co-founder of the within-church pietistic reform movement, and expelled from the country in 1702.

'[10] Due to criticism, Lavater withdrew the statement shortly after publication, pointing out that it was merely an unconfirmed anecdote.

[14] The historian Johann Anton von Tillier (1792–1854) complained about the lack of documents on civil unrest in the archives of the Bernese government.