title: 1853 in Switzerland
text: # 1853 in Switzerland
  
  The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1853 in Switzerland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Federal Council:
     * Ulrich Ochsenbein
     * Jonas Furrer
     * Josef Munzinger
     * Henri Druey
     * Friedrich Frey-Herosé
     * Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (President)
     * Stefano Franscini
  
  ## Events
  
  * February 4 – Johann Jakob Speiser, Achilles Bischoff, and Karl Geigy establish the Swiss Central Railway
  * Tissot, a Swiss watch company, is founded
  * The Swiss Northern Railway merges with the Lake Constance and Rheinfall Railways to create the Swiss Northeastern Railway
  * Revue Thommen is established under the name Waldenburg
  * Diplomatic relations are established by the United States
  * Grunerite is discovered and named after Emmanuel-Louis Gruner, the Swiss-French chemist who first analyzed it
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 14 – Ferdinand Hodler, painter (d. 1918)
  * September 14 – Marc-Émile Ruchet, French-speaking politician (d. 1912)
  * December 11 – Jacob Wackernagel, linguist, Indo-Europeanist, and scholar of Sanskrit (d. 1938)
  * Christian Klucker, mountain guide (d. 1928)
  * Luigi Rossi, painter (d. 1923)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * September 15 – Théophile Voirol, general in the French Republican Army (b. 1781)
  * November 28 – Hans Bendel, painter (b. 1814)
  