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Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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A Sequel To The Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten
A Sequel To The Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Greetings To All My Family,
This sequel will supplement the family history of my great grandparents, John and Anna von Gunten, which I mailed you in November 1989. A family history is never really completed - it grows and grows and gathers a life of its own. In the past year enough additional material has been generated to justify this sequel.
In that original history I briefly introduced you to Gervais von Gunten, my third cousin, of Bienne, Switzerland. Recently he retired, this permitting him to devote time and money to his avocation - genealogy. Happily for us he has …
A Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten
A Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Greetings to All My Family:
The idea of a family history began this year when I attempted to identify my ancestors who preceded John and Anna von Gunten - an attempt to stretch backward the generations of our family tree. Other families overwhelm me with their pedigrees reaching into the 18th, even the 17th, century. So why shouldn't I trace my roots to a greater depth, hoping that our heritage would be revealed
In early 1989 I contacted a prof esmonal genealogist, asking if she would undertake a search of John's lineage. She declined, saying she did not specialize in …
Joan Magee, The Swiss In Ontario, Leo Schelbert
Joan Magee, The Swiss In Ontario, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This is truly a Swiss-Canadian book. It not only offers a fact-filled survey of the Swiss presence in Canada's vast province of Ontario, covering some three centuries, but it is also produced by Swiss Canadians. The text is .written by "a descendant of Johannes Etter, a Swiss innkeeper," the study's end page explains; in 1735 he had left Bern, Switzerland, with about 300 others for South Carolina. "Etter's son Peter, a Loyalist, travelled to Halifax in ·1776, founding the Canadian branch of the Etter family." Also the book's artwork is done by a Swiss-Canadian, the painter Rudolf Stussi, and the …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Hans Werner Debrunner, Schweizer Im Kolonialen Afrika, Leo Schelbert
Hans Werner Debrunner, Schweizer Im Kolonialen Afrika, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Themes connected with Switzerland are often judged to be of only marginal significance. The Swiss nation as such certainly was no player in the European penetration and partition of the African continent. The involvement of Swiss people, furthermore, was numerically small and cannot compare with that of the Dutch or the Danes. Yet Hans Werner Debrunner's study of Swiss in colonial Africa is nevertheless of great value, especially since it is part of a set of other works he has devoted to African issues. It adds, first, much to our knowledge of Swiss migrations, understood not primarily as settlements overseas, …
Emil Staiger, Basic Concepts Of Poetics, Edward K. Berggren
Emil Staiger, Basic Concepts Of Poetics, Edward K. Berggren
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Originally published in · 1946, Staiger's Basic Concepts of Poetics is ostensibly an alternative introduction to traditional theories of poetics and genre criticism. However, the work actually proposes an entire reconceptualization of these theories, linking them to a more "fundamental" philosophical and anthropological project which, Staiger tells us, might more appropriately read as a work of philosophical anthropology attempting to answer the question, "What is man?" Its answer comes by way of an investigation of the existential world of poetics, because he sees poetics as one of our primary openings onto Being as well as an expression of humankind's most …
Anabaptist Emigration From The Old Republic Of Bern, Delbert Gratz
Anabaptist Emigration From The Old Republic Of Bern, Delbert Gratz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
From my living room window· I see several of the farms that were the cradle of our Bernese Mennonite Settlement made in Putnam County, Ohio, in the mid-183O's. My mind often wonders as I gaze at these old buildings, the fields and forests. I try to imagine: What these first Bernese saw when they arrived here; How they reacted to the wilderness and its animals and also to its few remaining aboriginal inhabitants; What they talked about - their memories, their concerns for themselves and their progeny; What their social, cultural, economic and religious life was like in the land …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Obituary: Fritz Marti, Philosopher, Dies At 97 In Tucson, Arizona
Obituary: Fritz Marti, Philosopher, Dies At 97 In Tucson, Arizona
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Professor Fritz Marti passed away in his sleep November 23, 1991, in Tucson, Arizona, where he lived with a daughter since 1987. He would have been 98 years old on January 1st. Born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1894, Marti served in the Swiss Army during the First World War as an engineer and as an intelligence officer in England at the war's outset, preventing German nationals from returning to Germany under the guise of Swiss citizenship. He took his Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Bern in 1922 and came to the United States that year to teach at …
Switzerland's Dialogue With The New Europe, H. Dwight Page
Switzerland's Dialogue With The New Europe, H. Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In the midst of the extraordinary current political, economic and cultural changes transforming Europe, few nations find themselves in a greater dilemma than Great Britain and Switzerland. While they must participate to a degree in the process of European economic unification, both Britain and Switzerland risk in so doing jeopardizing their political and cultural identities to a greater extent than any other countries in Europe. No other European culture reveres political independence and sovereignty as much as these two. In addition, whereas the other nation states of Europe have been involved in larger supranational European empires until recent times, Britain …
The Artist As Entrepreneur: Long-Term Professional Bonds In Quattrocento Florence, Yael Even
The Artist As Entrepreneur: Long-Term Professional Bonds In Quattrocento Florence, Yael Even
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A number of comparatively recent publications on collaboration in Quattrocento art attest to the renewed interest in reassessing the nature of professional exchange among artist. These studies continue to shed more light on the prevalence and extent of collaborative artistic undertakings in Florence during this period. Originating in archival research, the studies reject the romanticized, traditional view of Early Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects as solitary geniuses, suggesting instead that these creative talents operated as entrepreneurs who collaborated to establish profitable careers.
Moral Lessons For Women Readers Of Jean Lemaire De Belges's Les Illustrations De Gaule Et Singularitez De Troye, Judy Kem
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Jean Lemaire de Belges (1473-1525), poet and historiographer of the French and Burgundian courts of the early Renaissance, wrote his epic history of Troy, Les Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye (1511-1513), at the request of his patron, Margaret of Austria, to offer an "occupation voluptueuse, et non pas inutile" [sensual yet useful occupation] to the ladies of France (1:11). Lemaire dedicated each of the three books of his epic to a different noblewoman. Mercury, who narrates the prologues of all three volumes, identifies each noblewoman with one of the three goddesses of the Judgment of Paris: Margaret of …
"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain
"With Holy Importunitie, With A Pious Impudencie": John Donne's Attempts To Provoke Election, Raymond-Jean Frontain
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Donne's use of the imperative when addressing God in the Divine Poems is a maneuver designed to resolve a particularly Protestant dilemma, the same dilemma confronted by the speaker of Elegy 19 under another guise. As C. L. barber and Richard P. Wheeler have pointed out, the reformers' dismantling of "much of the Catholic apparatus of worship in order to isolate the individual worshiper in direct rapport with God through faith...put worshippers at risk in new ways. In areas where the Reformation triumphed, extraordinary anxiety could be generated by the absolute importance conferred upon the individual's faith in the grace …
Review Essay: J. R. S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion Of Europe, De Lamar Jensen
Review Essay: J. R. S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion Of Europe, De Lamar Jensen
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J. R. S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion of Europe, Oxford University Press, 1988, 320 pp., maps, biblio., $15.95.
Review Essay: Michael A. Hicks, Ed., Profit, Piety And The Professions In Later Medieval England, Stephanie Christelow
Review Essay: Michael A. Hicks, Ed., Profit, Piety And The Professions In Later Medieval England, Stephanie Christelow
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Michael A. Hicks, ed., Profit, Piety and the Professions in Later Medieval England, Alan Sutton, 1990, xxii, 170 pp., biblio., index, $30.00
Review Essay: Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy Of Catastrophe: A Study Of Apocalyptic Narrative From Langland To Milton, Clement H. Wyke
Review Essay: Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy Of Catastrophe: A Study Of Apocalyptic Narrative From Langland To Milton, Clement H. Wyke
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Howard V. Hendrix, The Ecstasy of Catastrophe: A Study of Apocalyptic Narrative from Langland to Milton, American University Studies 4, Peter Lang, 1990, 394 pp., biblio., index, $65.00.
Review Essay: Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale And Theories Of Scholastic Psychology, Charles R. Smith
Review Essay: Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale And Theories Of Scholastic Psychology, Charles R. Smith
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Lois Roney, Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology, University of South Florida Press, 1990, xviii, 376 pp., ill., biblio., index, $36.95 (cloth), $16.95 (paperback).
Review Essay: John B. Gleason, John Colet, Norman L. Jones
Review Essay: John B. Gleason, John Colet, Norman L. Jones
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John B. Gleason, John Colet, University of California Press, 1989, 416 pp., $50.00.
Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore
Review Essay: Timothy Hampton, Writing From History: The Rhetoric Of Exemplarity In Renaissance Literature, Silvia Ruffo Fiore
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Timothy Hampton, Writing from History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature, Cornell University Press, 1990, 309 pp., index, $42.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).
Review Essay: Tarquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione Critica Basata Sulla Seconda Edizione Del 1570 Con Le Varianti Della Princeps (1562), Robert M. Johnston
Review Essay: Tarquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione Critica Basata Sulla Seconda Edizione Del 1570 Con Le Varianti Della Princeps (1562), Robert M. Johnston
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Torquato Tasso, Rinaldo: Edizione critica basata sulla seconda edizione del 1570 con le varianti della princeps (1562), ed. Michael Sherberg, Classici italiani minori 16, Longo Editore, 1990, 332 pp.
Review Essay: William Crelly, Marcello Giovanetti (1598-1631): A Poet Of The Early Roman Baroque, Frede Jensen
Review Essay: William Crelly, Marcello Giovanetti (1598-1631): A Poet Of The Early Roman Baroque, Frede Jensen
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William Crelly, Marcello Giovanetti (1598-1631): A Poet of the Early Roman Baroque, Studies in Renaissance Literature 3, Edwin Mellen Preess, 1990, iv, 379 pp., ill., $109.95 (library binding).