Carl Andreas Hilty was a Swiss lawyer, professor of constitutional law, politician, philosopher, lay theologian and writer.
Hilty around 1890
Image: Werdenberg. Haus Nr. 41. 2020 06 20 13 52 03
Image: Werdenberg. Haus Nr. 41. Wandmalereien. 2019 09 22 16 43 07
Chur is the capital and largest town of the Swiss canton of the Grisons and lies in the Grisonian Rhine Valley, where the Rhine turns towards the north, in the northern part of the canton. The city, on the right bank of the Rhine, is reputedly the oldest town in Switzerland.
Chur, looking upstream, to the west
Chur in 1642, by Matthäus Merian
Watercolour drawing of Chur by Francis Nicholson (1753–1844)
Chur c. 1870. Etching by Heinrich Müller