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Swiss Historical Society

Swiss organization (2001-)
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Summary

Swiss Historical Society is a regulatory college[1]. It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: study of history[3], history of Switzerland[4], popular science[5]
  • Member of: Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences[6], International Committee of Historical Sciences[7]
  • Country: Switzerland[8]
  • Instance of: historical society[9], organization[10]
  • Headquarters location: Bern[11]
  • Said to be the same as: General Historical Society of Switzerland[12]
  • Archives at: Swiss Federal Archives[13]
  • Inception: September 25, 1841[14], April 7, 2001[15]
  • Official website: https://www.sgg-ssh.ch/[16], https://www.sgg-ssh.ch/fr/[17], https://www.sgg-ssh.ch/it/[18]
  • Email address: mailto:info@sgg-ssh.ch[19]
  • Phone number: +41-31-381-38-21[20]
  • Described by source: Scholarly Societies Project[21]
  • Replaces: General Historical Society of Switzerland[22]
  • Official name: Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschichte[23], Société suisse d'histoire[24], Societad svizra d'istorgia[25], Società svizzera di storia[26]
  • Short name: SGG[27], SSH[28], SSS[29], SSI[30]
  • Different from: General Historical Society of Switzerland[31]
  • Member count: 1700[32], 1840[33]
  • House publication: Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Geschichte[34]
  • Street address: Villettenmattstrasse 9 3007 Bern[35]
  • P14750: 412C-5961-A4B4-0CB0-CA4B[36]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . recherche.bar.admin.ch. recherche.bar.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . scholarly-societies.org. Retrieved . scholarly-societies.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [6] ↑ . sagw.ch. Retrieved . sagw.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [7] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . recherche.bar.admin.ch. recherche.bar.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . scholarly-societies.org. Retrieved . scholarly-societies.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . scholarly-societies.org. Retrieved . scholarly-societies.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . scholarly-societies.org. Retrieved . scholarly-societies.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. Retrieved . sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . sgg-ssh.ch. sgg-ssh.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Helgoland71 · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'fr', 'it']
    Street address → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Villettenmattstrasse 9 3007 Bern'}
    Sitelink count → 3
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  2. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 412C-5961-A4B4-0CB0-CA4B
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 412C-5961-A4B4-0CB0-CA4B, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269257|batch #269257]]"
  3. 12w ago · Hadi · 2026-07-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of israel j9u id → 987007303023505171
    Said to be the same as → General Historical Society of Switzerland
    Isni → 0000000114819330
    Archives at → Swiss Federal Archives
    + 41 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Member count: 1,840"
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