Abstract
During the pre-scientific period, palaeobotany in Switzerland was eminently furthered by the two famous scholars Konrad Gessner and Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. In Zürich, Gessner published the first illustrations of fossils animals and plants and Scheuchzer created the “diluvial theory”. In the 19th century, the naturalist Oswald Heer was one of the most successful researchers in phytopalaeontology. His investigations were of world-wide significance. The principal works of Oswald Heer deal especially with the tertiary flora and the fossil plants of the Arctic and with the primeval world of Switzerland. Since Oswald Heer's work, palaeobotanical investigations in Switzerland mainly concentrated upon the younger Pleistocene and Holocene, and so the research of “Schieferkohlen”, the character of the climate during the glaciation, the palafittes and recently the temperature changes during the post-Glacial period. Pre-Quarternary palynology has just begun.
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