Bonstetten

Bonstetten, KARL VICTOR VON, publicist, born at Bern, 3d September 1745, studied at Leyden, Cambridge, and Paris, entered the council of Bern, and became district governor, and in 1795 a judge in Lugano. He lived in Italy and at Copenhagen from 1796 to 1801, and after his return settled at Geneva, where he died 3d February 1832. Among his larger works are Recherches sur la Nature et les Lois de l'Imagination (Geneva, 1807), Pensées Diverses (1815), Études de L'Homme (1821), and L'Homme du Midi et L'Homme du Nord (1824), an examination of the influence of climate. Three volumes of his correspondence have been published.