The author was born on December 15, 1929 in Spreitenbach, Canton Aargau, Switzerland. He was married for 44 years to Lottie Richli and has been a widower since 1998. They had no children. He attended Public and Secondary schools and Industrial School in Zurich. His profession was that of an "Artificial Designer". Later he went into Business and Marketing and was employed by an American group in sales, marketing and advertisement with the last years as a key accountant. In the 1980's, he and his wife moved to the southern part of Switzerland to own and run an art gallery but moved back to Zurich due to his wife's terminal illness. Meanwhile, he has always been occupied in the publishing field (i.e. biographies of artists, as well as the publishing of several historical stories such as "Jean Jaques Koller, 1757-1841, His Diaries and Journeys" published in Zurcher Taschenbuch in 1993, 1994 and 1996.