Second Battle of Zurich Second Battle of Zurich The Second Battle of Zurich (25–26 September 1799) was a key victory by the Republican French army in Switzerland led by André Masséna over an Austrian and Russian force commanded by Alexander Korsakov near Zürich. It broke the stalemate that had resulted from the First Battle of Zurich three months earlier and led to the withdrawal of Russia from the Second Coalition. Most of the fighting took place on both banks of the river Limmat up to the gates of Zürich, and within the city itself. After the First Battle of Zurich Masséna had consolidated to
Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich presented to the public for the very first time. Initially the collection was property of the Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich [Ethnographic Society of Zurich] (since 1899: Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich, GEGZ [Geographic-Ethnographic Society of Zurich]); in 1914 the collection was handed over to the University of Zurich where it was open to the public in the university’s main building till 1979. In 1972, with the introduction of ethnology as a new subject of study at the University of Zurich, the former “Ethnological Collection” was shifted from the Faculty of Natural Sciences to the Faculty of Arts and renamed as “Ethnographic Museum of