1833 Siegwart-Muller, criminal law of central Switzerland, book

Constantin Siegwart-Muller

Das Strafrecht der Kantone Uri, Schwyz, Unterwaldau, Glarus, Zug und Apperzell.

St. Gallen, Bureau des Freimutigen, 1833.

22cm. vi, [2], 150 pages, 1 leaf.

Original printed wrappers.

Constantin Siegwart-Müller (1801-69), Swiss politician who headed the Ultramontane Party at Lucerne and became the leader of the dissident Sonderbund. A lawyer from the canton of Uri, Siegwart-Müller settled in 1832 at Lucerne, where he soon rose to the position of state secretary (1834). In 1839 he abandoned the radical party for the clericalist Ultramontanes, but he subsequently lost his secretarial office in the liberal government. In 1841, on a wave of renascent clericalism, he was elected to the Lucerne state council, and by 1844 he had become Schultheiss (chief magistrate) and, simultaneously, president of the Diet.