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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Letter From South Carolina, 23, 1737, Johann Ulrich Giezendanner
Letter From South Carolina, 23, 1737, Johann Ulrich Giezendanner
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Introductory Note:
Johann Ulrich Giezendanner ( 1686-173 7) of Lichtensteig, Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland, by profession a gold- and silversmith, had briefly studied at the University of Marburg in Germany and had become one of the 'awakened' in the spirit of Pietism which was then influencing the various Christian denominations. (The movement minimized the difference between clergy and laity and stressed religion as a matter of experience and deeply-felt piety rather than as doctrine and as a set of rules to be obeyed.) Between 1 715 and 1720 J. U. Giezendanner preached to large crowds, but was silenced by offical …
Review Essay: Life-Saving Diplomacy, Tadeusz Debski
Review Essay: Life-Saving Diplomacy, Tadeusz Debski
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Leo Schelbert, ed., Switzerland Under Siege 1939-1945: A Neutral Nation's Struggle for Survival. Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2000.
Theo Tschuy, Dangerous Diplomacy. The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2000.
David Kranzler, The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mante/lo, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour. Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust Series, Alan L. Berger, ed. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Swiss Families From The Toggenburg And Werdenberg At Home And Abroad: A Genealogical Sketch, Ernest W. Alther
Swiss Families From The Toggenburg And Werdenberg At Home And Abroad: A Genealogical Sketch, Ernest W. Alther
Swiss American Historical Society Review
During past centuries the moving due to marriage of Toggenburg and Werdenberg families within the region or across borders to neighboring countries can often be observed. Lichtensteig, Wil, and the town of St. Gallen were drawing points for commerce and business for the people of the Toggenburg, and moving across the Swiss border is documented already in the sixteenth century from and to W erdenberg and Appenzell, as shown by moves of families such as Alther, Gantenbein, Giezendanner, and Steiner. They were leaving not only for other European countries but also for overseas, especially to regions that became part of …
Review: Bertrand Piccard And Brian Jones, Around The World In 20 Days: The Story Of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Cheryl R. Ganz
Review: Bertrand Piccard And Brian Jones, Around The World In 20 Days: The Story Of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Cheryl R. Ganz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Around the World in 20 Days is a compelling personal narrative by the two pilots who first circumnavigated the globe by balloon in 1999 in the Breitling Orbiter 3. Having failed in his first two attempts to conquer this one remaining aeronautical challenge of twentieth century, Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard invited British flight instructor Brian Jones to join him for the ultimate adventurer's project. Together they assembled a working team of corporate representatives, aviation controllers, meteorologists, friends, and family who spent years in preparation for the balloon launch from Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland in the winter of 1999. Five other …
Review: Lionel Gossman, Basel In The Age Of Burckhardt. A Study In Unseasonable Ideas, Benn Williams
Review: Lionel Gossman, Basel In The Age Of Burckhardt. A Study In Unseasonable Ideas, Benn Williams
Swiss American Historical Society Review
"Monotonie sans egale" or sanctuary for "unbridled thinkers"?
Being human and prone to forming first impressions, this reviewer glanced at the full title of the text under review, and saw red flags rising. First, in the spirit of full disclosure, this non-Swiss reviewer has only "visited" Basel once: an unpleasant-and unexpected-wintry layover courtesy of a French rail strike. Second, seeing "unseasonable ideas" in the same title as anyone other than Nietzsche raises one's hackles. Third, while the works of Burckhardt enjoy renewed interest among art historians and publishers, he remains largely ignored by "new" cultural and intellectual historians and humanists …
The Shahnameh Of Ferdowsi: An Icon To National Identity, Laina Farhat-Holzman
The Shahnameh Of Ferdowsi: An Icon To National Identity, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Richard L. Burger. Chavin And The Origins Of Andean Civilizations, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Richard L. Burger. Chavin And The Origins Of Andean Civilizations, Laina Farhat-Holzman
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Ashok Kumar Malbora Transcreation Of The Bhagavad Gita., Michael Andregg
Ashok Kumar Malbora Transcreation Of The Bhagavad Gita., Michael Andregg
Comparative Civilizations Review
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Six Bridges: The Legacy Of Othmar Ammann, Nicole Butz
Book Review: Six Bridges: The Legacy Of Othmar Ammann, Nicole Butz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Around his eightieth birthday, the Swiss-American engineer, Othmar Ammann moved to an apartment at the top of the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. One imagines that he, gazing down on the city below, could have only marveled at how much its landscape had changed since his arrival there fiftyodd years earlier. He also could have delighted in his own accomplishments, the vistas from his new home offering visual confirmation of his professional successes. With views in three directions, Ammann would have seen virtually all of "his bridges": the George Washington to the north; the Triborough, Bronx-Whitestone, and Throgs Neck to the …
Sahs Annual Report, Paula Sherman, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Sabine Jessner
Sahs Annual Report, Paula Sherman, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Sabine Jessner
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Hans Heinrich Felder, Jr., Captain In South Carolina's Revolutionary Army, 1778, Walter Lips
Hans Heinrich Felder, Jr., Captain In South Carolina's Revolutionary Army, 1778, Walter Lips
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The progenitor of the American Felder family was Hans Heinrich Felder who was born in Wiedikon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, about 1701. He, his wife Ursula, and their ten-year old son Hans Heinrich, Jr., later John Henry, settled in Orangeburg Township, South Carolina in 1735. The family was granted 350 acres of land, that is more than half a square mile, on September 17, 1738 by King George II of England. Hans Heinrich Felder, Sr., however, died that same year, and his wife passed away a year later in 1739. Their son John Henry Felder was only 14 years old when …
Book Review: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief., Virginia B. Schelbert
Book Review: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief., Virginia B. Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The author, Professor of Family Social Services at the University of Minnesota, is the daughter of the late Paul and of Verena Magdalena Grossenbacher, born Elmer. Her father was a native of Burgdorf, Canton Bern, and had been a main promoter of New Glarus' Swiss American institutions. 3 Thus Dr. Boss begins her book with a personal narrative which describes growing up with the effects of the immigrant experience on family members. Her people had left their homeland Switzerland and many beloved relatives in the early 1900' s for life in the American Midwest, only to encounter yearning, homesickness, and …
A Business Economist With Swiss Heritage Looks At Switzerland, Donald P. Hilty
A Business Economist With Swiss Heritage Looks At Switzerland, Donald P. Hilty
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For many in the United States, the word "Switzerland" conjures up pleasant thoughts of cows, mountains, Heidi, democracy -- maybe also a proud heritage and some dear friends -- but, perhaps, a country that is a bit dull. The purpose here is to alert this audience: Switzerland is not dull. It is in the big leagues of international business. This small country in the middle of Europe has gained the stature of an economic giant, not just in relation to its size but in absolute terms.
Reading Beyond The Words: Material Letters And The Process Of Interpretation, Sara Jayne Steen
Reading Beyond The Words: Material Letters And The Process Of Interpretation, Sara Jayne Steen
Quidditas
Until recently, early modern letters, and women's letters in particular, have been neglected as a source of information about early modern life and literary culture, although they have much to say, especially about the manuscript culture of which we now have become aware. In the 1990s, scholars began to cross the traditional disciplinary lines between literature and history and examine letters for indications of social and linguistic interrelationships and of personal artistry. Scholars of historical pragmatics now are treating issues such as how forms of address shifted across time; Lynne Magnusson is completing a book that explores early modern Englishwomen’s …
Allen D. Breck Award Winner: Nothing’S Paradox In Donne’S “Negative Love” And “A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’S Day”, Sean Ford
Quidditas
John Donne's complicated use of paradox is nowhere more inviting than in the grammatical and conceptual use of the word "nothing," especially when Donne chooses to give this noun the quality of substance and presence, rather than using it to denote the absence of anything. Two poems in particular, from the Songs and Sonets, give affirmative existence to a nothing in order to make distinct arguments regard- ing the status of an existing thing. Both “Negative Love” and “A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’s Day, being the shortest day” rely on this paradox to give a precise definition of the …
Review Essay: Lynn Tarte Ramey. Christian, Saracen And Genre In Medieval French Literature, Andrew Cowell
Review Essay: Lynn Tarte Ramey. Christian, Saracen And Genre In Medieval French Literature, Andrew Cowell
Quidditas
Lynn Tarte Ramey. Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature. Studies in Medieval History and Culture, vol. 3. New York: Rou- tledge, 2001. 120 pp. ISBN 0415930138.
Peder Kjolhede-Man Of Action, Thorvald Hansen
Peder Kjolhede-Man Of Action, Thorvald Hansen
The Bridge
Prior to the coming of the Protestant Reformation in 1536, the area in which Peder Kjoilhede (hereinafter Kjolhede) was born and grew up was owned by the Roman Catholic bishops. This area, south of the Limfjord and close to the west coast of Jutland, became the property of the king. It was parceled out by him to those who had rendered service to him, and much later, through division and sales, a portion of it came to be the property of Johan Kjolhede and was known as the farm of Kjolhedegird.