Two federal civil servants started their global careers in Bern at the beginning of the last century: Heinrich Wild (1877-1951) and Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Swiss topographer, inventor, designer and company founder Heinrich Wild shapes the surveying and mapping of our living space on earth worldwide with completely new geodetic and photogrammetric instruments. The technical expert at the Office for Intellectual Property, physics professor, inventor and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein simultaneously revolutionizes the world view of physics with unconventional theories and findings. What was previously unknown was that the path of Heinrich Wild's life ran along the personal gravitational field of Albert Einstein for decades, and that Wild in turn revolutionized the surveying industry.
For all interested in famous people from Glarus, Heinrich Wild was originally from Glarus and spent his whole childhood and youth there.
Author Fritz Staudacher (born 1943) at the Glarus State Archives. In front of him is a manuscript volume of the Kubly-Müller genealogy. This is how the author and journalist goes about his research at the source. He is particularly interested in the history of science and technology from the perspective of the personalities who shaped it and their contemporaries. In his bestselling biography Jost Bürgi, Kepler and the Emperor, published by NZZ Libri in 2013 and now in its fourth edition, he succeeds in revealing completely new connections between these three personalities and in giving new impetus to the history of science in the early modern period. During my time as a communications manager, I didn't have the time to delve into the early modern period. For example, I had to shape brand transfer processes from Wild Heerbrugg to Wild Leitz and to Leica with the future in mind,’ he says, ’but it is equally important to know the origin and the driving forces. I did that extensively at Bürgi and now on a smaller scale at Heinrich Wild. My retirement gave me enough time for that.’ In the early 1970s, Fritz Staudacher worked as an advertising consultant at Eternit AG in Niederurnen, and another connection to Glarus is his son-in-law, who comes from Oberurnen.
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