Wilhelm Oechsli was a Swiss historian.

Oechsli studied theology and history at Berlin and Zürich, under Theodor Mommsen

Theodor Mommsen

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research...

 among others. In 1887 he took up the new chair of Swiss history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. From 1893 to 1919 he was professor of history at the University of Zürich

University of Zurich

The University of Zurich , located in the city of Zurich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 25,000 students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine and a new faculty of philosophy....

. He tried to popularize critical historiography, challenging the legendary traditions about the Swiss national past:

Works

• Die Anfänge der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft zur sechsten Säkularfeier des ersten ewigen Bundes vom 1. August 1291st August 1291, Zürich: Ulrich, 1891.
• Geschichte der Schweiz im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert, 2 vols, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1903
• History of Switzerland, 1499-1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922. Translated from the German by Eden
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External links

• Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919)