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Arnold Robert

Swiss politician (1846-1925)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ16145964 ↗
Source-derived summary

J. Arnold Robert-Tissot (French: [aʁnɔld ʁɔbɛʁ tiso]; 26 May 1846 – 20 October 1925) was a Swiss politician and President of the Swiss Council of States (1899/1900).

External links

"Arnold Robert" in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

Biography of Arnold Robert on the website of the Swiss Parliament.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Arnold Robert” as swiss politician (1846-1925). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1846, 1925, 1899, 1900—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1846-05-26. The account is most persuasive where Arnold, Robert and Swiss can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as swiss politician (1846-1925). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16145964. VIAF identifies the subject as 308746578. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1846, 1925, 1899 and 1900.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Arnold Robert” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.