Horology

Self-Introduction

Who am I?

I am Fortunat Mueller-Maerki, a horological enthusiast and horological scholar, which means I am extremly interested in the history, art and science of timekeeping, timekeepers and time. My roots are in Switzerland, but I currently live in the USA.

I am active in many horological organizations and subscribe to to over two dozen horological periodicals. In addition I am a certified "bibliomaniac", and have amassed one of the worlds broadest privately held horological libraries with about 21'000 titles (books, volumes of magazines, catalogs, epemera etc) on clocks, watches, timekeeping and time.

I regularly write articles for various horological periodicals, and frequently review newly published books for them. Since retiring a few years ago I regularly organize and lead horological study tours for Americans to Europe and for Europeans to the USA.

In addition I am continually working on creating a wiki-style, collaborative, internet website called "Bibliographia Horlogiae Mundi", [[ http://www.hsn161.com/BHM/bhm1-allusers/bhm_entry.php ]] a global, multi-langage bibliography of the worlds horological literature.

I enthusiastically endorse the Wikipedia philosophy of collaboration and position of neutrality. In addition to augmenting the horological content of Wikipedia since I joined in Summer of 2006, I have corrected or expanded other Wikipedia entries if I stumble over mistakes or omissions in my regular use of Wikipedia as an information source.

I cam be reached by email at horology@horology.com

As an occasional contributor to wikipedia who may go for a few month without contributing I find many of the rules and procedures confusing, all to often I find that e.g. I have good selftaken photo that I would be willing to add to a wikipedia article by putting it in the commons, but I get frustrated in trying to upload and remember what kind of license I need to give etc. I realize wikipedia is a huge and complex undertaking but the help sections are close to useless for the beginner or occasional user.