Alexander Berner [SEP] date of birth
Alexander Berner
Alexander Berner (born 1901, date of death unknown) was a Swiss skeleton racer who competed in the late 1920s. He finished fifth in the men's skeleton event at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.
References.
- 1928 men's skeleton results
- Wallechinsky, David (1984). "Skeleton (Cresta Run)". "The Complete Book of the Olympics: 1896-1980". New York: Penguin Books. p. 576.
- Alexander Berner's profile
the "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie", (1885), volume 22, pp. 325–327, Verlag von Dunker & Humblot, Leipzig. .
2: Most publications on Karl Adolph von Morlot tend to follow Chavannes'(1867) necrology and mention 22 March 1820 as the date of his birth; perhaps more confidence should be placed in the date of 5 April 1820 given by the genealogy data base of the old families of Bern, "Berner Geschlechter" , the more so because the latter site gives the full names of his