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Carl Albrecht Bernoulli
1868–1937
A Swiss theologian and man of letters from Basel, he moved between scholarship and creative writing, publishing both under his own name and under the pseudonym Ernst Kilchner. His work is especially remembered for its literary voice and for his studies connected with church history and Nietzsche.
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Die Heiligen der Merowinger
by Carl Albrecht Bernoulli
About the author
Born in Basel on January 10, 1868, Carl Albrecht Bernoulli was a Swiss Protestant theologian, church historian, and writer. He studied theology in Neuchâtel, Basel, Strasbourg, and Marburg, and later qualified in church history at the University of Basel.
After an early academic career, he gave up university teaching and lived for years as a freelance writer in cities including Paris, London, and Berlin before returning to the Basel area. Alongside scholarly work, he published literary writing under the pseudonym Ernst Kilchner.
Bernoulli died in Arlesheim on February 13, 1937. He is often noted not only as a theologian and historian, but also as a thoughtful interpreter of Friedrich Nietzsche and Franz Overbeck, which gives his work an unusual place between religion, intellectual history, and literature.