| Surname | Goumoëns, de | |
| First Name | Rudolf Ludwig | |
| Gender | male | |
| Place of birth | Brestenberg (AG) | |
| Place of death | Bern | |
| Year of birth | 1771 | |
| Year of death | 1839 | |
| Profession | Officer | |
| Religion | Protestant | |
| Place(s) of activity | Bern | |
| Century | 18 | |
| Biographical information | Son of Vinzenz Deotatus, a foreign service officer, and Rosina Esther von Hallwyl. Unmarried. Officer in the service of France (1788-1792) and Holland (1793-1796). Staff officer of the Bernese army with the rank of major. At the Battle of Neuenegg (5 March 1798), he commanded two reserve battalions. District commander of the 1st military district of Aargau (1799-1800). In the summer of 1801, he was, together with L. May of Schöftland and Gottlieb Heinrich Hünerwadel, one of the instigators of the aborted attempt to return Aargau to the canton of Bern. In 1802, he took part in the federalists' campaign against the Swiss army. He was captain of the Bernese state company (1803) and commanded it during the Bocken War (1804). Member of the Grand Council (1810-1812) and of the Small Council (1812-1817) of the city of Bern. Member of the Grand Council of Bern. Belonged to the most conservative faction of the Bernese patricians. He left several diaries which have remained unpublished. | |
| Title | With pencil on the cover : (a) Journal de Campagne | |
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| Period covered | 28 October 1793 to 30 April 1796 | |
| Format / Language | Autograph, French | |
| Physical description | 14 notebooks with 12 pages (Notebook 8, 8 pages, notebook 14, 10 pages). 20/16cm. |
| Content | Diary of de Goumoëns about his service as second lieutenant of the Company von Wattenwyl of the Regiment de Goumoëns in the Dutch military service, with corrections and numerous enclosed notes. The diary is a fair copy. It mainly describes an itinerary for which de Goumoëns merely provides the most important daily information: where he has eaten, spent the night, changed his means of transport, or which actions and movements of his regiment he participated in. Notebooks 1-13 contain the diary, notebook 14 contains the copy of a memorandum from the year 1795. |
| Place of deposit | StABE (Bern) |
| Classification | N de Goumoëns 1.4 |
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Zur Biographie, vgl. die Einleitung zum Nachlass de Goumoëns im Repertorium des StABE. |
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| Author | Basel |
