The Barfüsserkloster in the old town of Zürich is a former Franciscan friary. It was first attested in the 1240s and was dissolved during the Reformation, in 1524. The friary was situated in the southeastern corner of the medieval city, between the Neumarkt and the Linden gates.
Gerhard Besier is a German Lutheran theologian, historian and politician best known for his work on church-state relations in the Third Reich and in the German Democratic Republic.
Andreas Urs Sommer is a German philosopher of Swiss origin. He specializes in the history of philosophy and its theory, ethics, philosophy of religion, and Skepticism. His historical studies center on the philosophy of Enlightenment and Nietzsche, but they also deal with Kant, Max Weber, Pierre Bayle, Jonathan Edwards, and others.
Theophil Andreas Luzius Sprecher von Bernegg was a Swiss politician and military Chief of the General Staff (1905–1919).
Roger Sablonier was a Swiss historian and writer of non-fiction publications, and Emeritus of the faculty of the University of Zürich.
Georg Kohler is a Swiss philosopher. He is a professor emeritus of Political Philosophy at University of Zurich. He is also a publicist and an author. He has written books on political philosophy and modern day Swiss politics and also collaborated with other writers including Hermann Lübbe.
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is an historian of science who comes from Liechtenstein. He was director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 1997 to 2014. His focus areas within the history of science are the history and epistemology of the experiment, and further the history of molecular biology and protein biosynthesis. Additionally he writes and publicizes essays and poems.
Heinz Gstrein was an Austrian-Swiss Oriental Orthodox theologian, foreign correspondent, non-fiction author and a lecturer at the University of Vienna.
Johann Jacob Hess was a Protestant Swiss theologian and clergyman.
Rudolf Braun was a Swiss historian.
Esther Fischer-Homberger was a Swiss psychiatrist and medical historian. Her research focused on the history of psychiatry, psychosomatics and forensic medicine as well as the medical history of women.
Willi Schuh was a Swiss musicologist. He was particularly noted for his research on the life and works of the composer Richard Strauss.
Gen Atem is a visual and performance artist, musician, writer, and Zen-master. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Thomas Straubhaar is a Swiss economist and migration researcher. He is a professor for international economic relations at the University of Hamburg.
Haruthiun Tigran Abeljanz was a Swiss-Armenian chemist.
Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler was a Swiss painter, craftswoman, art collector and patron of the arts.
Walter Heuer was Chefkorrektor at the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and author of the book Richtiges Deutsch. He was a central figure in the area of German orthography, especially in the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
Rainer Emil Gut was a Swiss bank manager.
Albert Ziegler was a Swiss Roman-Catholic theologian, ethicist and author.
Fritz Senn is a Swiss publicist and James Joyce expert.
