Nationality Swiss Years active 1857–1917 | Name Jakob Messikommer Died August 23, 1917 | |
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Occupation Swiss farmer and archaeologist Spouse(s) Barbara Wismer by first marriage, Babette Messikommer by second marriage | ||
Jakob Messikommer (18 August 1828 – 23 August 1917) was a Swiss archaeologist who among others discovered and researched the UNESCO serial site Wetzikon–Robenhausen.
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Appreciation of his work
On 29 April 1893 Jakob Messikommer received an honorary doctorate from the philosophical faculty of the University of Zürich, for his achievements to the prehistoric archaeology. The Antiquarian Society inaugurated at the site of his first finds on Robenhauser Ried a memorial stone made of red Sernifit from the Sernftal in Glarus on 22 May 1926. In 2010 the so-called Messikommer Eich, an assumably more-than-500-year-old oak at the same site, was supplemented by a display board. A year later, Jakob Messikommer's Neolithic settlements Wetzikon-Robenhausen became one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which are 56 located in Switzerland.