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Carl Albrecht Bernoulli
1868–1937
A Swiss theologian, literary critic, and novelist, he moved between scholarship and creative writing with unusual ease. He is especially remembered for his work on church history and for studying Friedrich Nietzsche and Franz Overbeck.
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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, writer, and poet. He studied theology in Neuchâtel, Basel, Strasbourg, and Marburg, completed his degree in 1894, and later qualified in Basel as a lecturer in church history.
Bernoulli did not stay only in university life. Sources describe him as a theologian, poet, and publicist, and note that he spent years working as a freelance writer in Paris, London, and Berlin before returning to Arlesheim. He also published fiction under the pseudonym Ernst Kilchner, showing a career that crossed between research, criticism, and imaginative writing.
He is often associated with studies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Franz Overbeck, alongside his broader work in religious and literary history. Bernoulli died in Arlesheim on February 13, 1937, at the age of 69.