Among the 457 fatalities of the Goldau landslide in central Switzerland on September 2, 1806, was 33-year-old artillery captain Rudolf Ludwig von Jenner (1768-1806). On this day, he and seven comrades had made an excursion to the Rigi, the mountain on Lake Lucerne, which was already popular at the time because of its view. His friend, Franz Ludwig von May (1774-1823), had the admired Bernese sculptor Valentin Sonnenschein (1749-1828) model a miniature monument: The victim leans against a cracked rock, at the foot of which rests a mourning death genius with an extinguished torch.