Anna Barbara Zellweger
Swiss political adviser (1775–1815)
Anna Barbara Zellweger (née Zuberbühler; 27 May 1775 – 27 November 1815) was a Swiss political adviser and the wife of landammann Jacob Zellweger of Trogen. She is known for her political correspondence and her role as a personal counsellor to her husband on political matters during the turbulent period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Early life
Anna Barbara Zuberbühler was born on 27 May 1775 in Speicher as the second child of Johann Georg Zuberbühler, a physician and councillor, and Katharina Barbara Tobler. She was the granddaughter of Johann Jakob Zuberbühler, a physician and landammann, and the elder sister of Johann Ulrich Zuberbühler, a merchant and councillor in Speicher. Little is known about her childhood and youth, except that she became an orphan at the age of 10 when her father died.
Marriage and family
After her sister Catharina Barbara Zuberbühler married Michael Tobler, a thread merchant and arsenal superintendent, in 1791, Anna Barbara married Jacob Zellweger in 1793. Her husband had been managing, since 1792, an international textile trading company in Trogen and Genoa together with his father Johannes Zellweger and two of his brothers, including the future philanthropist Johann Caspar Zellweger. From 1802 to 1818, Jacob Zellweger served as landammann of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and as a delegate to the Diet. From the first decade of the 19th century, Anna Barbara Zellweger and her sister Catharina Barbara Tobler lived in Trogen with their families.
Over the course of their 22-year marriage, Anna Barbara gave birth to 17 children: 11 daughters and six sons.
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