Published on January 4, 2025 at 10:52.
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In a book of long-term interviews, the historian Jean-Pierre Jelmini recounts his life. For decades he was curator of the History Museum of the city of Neuchâtel (1972-2000) and director of the same Museum of Art and History (1990-1994; 2000), institutions that he brought out of limbo where they vegetated.
The exercise is smoothly carried out with the skillful complicity of Julien Knoepfler in the role of stooge. Jelmini, familiarly nicknamed Jelmos, is an emblematic character of the city of Neuchâtel, of which he became the tireless historian in his role as curator of archives and historical prints (1976-2000), and well beyond his retirement. He is notably the author of the city’s great millennium book, Neuchâtel 1011-2011. A thousand years – a thousand questions – a thousand and one answersa work in the form of a dictionary presenting all the names of streets, neighborhoods, buildings, institutions and important people during the millennium of the city’s existence. A challenge coupled with editorial success with thousands of copies sold.
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