title: [My great-grandfather Christian Batschelet (1813 - 1897) veterinarian in Walperswil (BE).].
abstract: In the introduction I will start from a biographical novel on Friedrich Baumann, who was born in 1835 as an illegitimate child and later stood in high respect as building contractor, founder's president of the Swiss master builder's federation and politician, and we will look after his father who emigrated to America. In the following sections I will present the Batschelet family as well as the family of the veterinarian Christian Batschelet and the department for animal pharmaceutics of the academy in Bern. The time of the young veterinarian in Walperswil as well as his emigration and his life in the USA will also be examined and I will also introduce Christian Batschelet's son, Friedrich Baumann and his son, my father Erwin Friedrich Baumann.
authors.affiliation: Meikirch.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baumann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000066502:Grandparents; D049672:History, 19th Century; D018634:Veterinarians