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Carl Peter Hoiberg, Thorvald Hansen
Carl Peter Hoiberg, Thorvald Hansen
The Bridge
Elsewhere, I have written that Carl Peter Hoiberg (Hojberg) was one of the most controversial figures in what was the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He was widely respected for his learning and his abilities. He could teach and preach and inspire as few others could. It has been said, "I doubt very much that any single person in our church has inspired so many young people as did Carl Peter Hoiberg."1 He was at once at academician and one who had devotion to and vision for the folk school. He had a lively sense of curiosity, which he …
Christian Petersen, Sculptor, J. R. Christianson
Christian Petersen, Sculptor, J. R. Christianson
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Christian Petersen (1885-1961), a native of Dybb0l in what was once Prussian Schleswig and today is Danish S0nderjylland, became the first artist-in-residence at any American college or university in 1934. The most recent book about him and his art, by Lea Rosson DeLong and others, places Petersen alongside Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton as one of the leading American Regionalists of the nineteen-thirties and 'forties. DeLong also reveals Petersen's strong Danish-American ties and some of the Danish elements that helped to shape his art.
Taking The Scenic Route: From Denmark To America Via Australia, Borge M. Christensen
Taking The Scenic Route: From Denmark To America Via Australia, Borge M. Christensen
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From Copenhagen across the Atlantic to America, occasionally via Germany or England, Danish emigrants usually followed the most direct route. The Atlantic is the ocean in the Danish Immigrant Museum's trademark "Across Oceans, Across Time." A few found their way to the New World via South America. But the young cabinetmaker in this story went the other way around. He circumnavigated the globe and stopped a few years in Australia before he finally settled in America.
Jens Christian Jensen And Family: The Story Of An American Pioneer From Denmark And His Family, Lois Eagleton
Jens Christian Jensen And Family: The Story Of An American Pioneer From Denmark And His Family, Lois Eagleton
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Family stories, by their very nature, never stop being a work in progress. My mother had kept her family tree for many years, as had her mother before her. When I decided to update what they had done and bring it into the electronic age, I really had no idea what I was getting into. My mother had attempted to keep everything organized over the years. It was organized, sort of, here and there, in drawers, in boxes, on shelves, in closets, stacked on tables, you name it. She had kept everything! Thank goodness she did, for I have found …
My Danish Background, Waldemar Westergaard
My Danish Background, Waldemar Westergaard
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Editor's Note: This essay brought back fond memories for me, because I had the opportunity, some forty years ago, to meet Professor Waldemar Westergaard (1882-1963) in his pension in Store Kongensgade, near Kongens Nytoro in Copenhagen. It was the summer of 1962. My graduate school advisor, Professor Lawrence D. Steefel, was an old friend of his and recommended me to him. Professor Westergaard was eighty years of age but full of energy, charm, and good stories. He gave me the names of all kinds of people to contact in Copenhagen. The cordiality and intellectual acumen that characterize the following memoir …
A Trip To Denmark In 1906, Lois Eagleton
A Trip To Denmark In 1906, Lois Eagleton
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In the spring of 1906, Niels Pedersen and his wife Minnie Oensen) traveled to Denmark to visit relatives and friends and to see the homeland. Niels had left Denmark to go to America, apparently to avoid having to join the King's army. There he met and married Maren Jensen (who preferred to be called "Minnie").
Review Essay, Stefan Maechler, John E. Woods
Review Essay, Stefan Maechler, John E. Woods
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Stefan Maechler, The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth.
Translated by John E. Woods. New York: Random House , 2001.
vii, 496 pp. Paperback, $16.95.In
Swiss In South Dakota: A Preliminary Sketch, Leo Schelbert
Swiss In South Dakota: A Preliminary Sketch, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Prepared in Commemoration of the Opening of the
Midwest Dairy Institute, Milbank, South Dakota, June 7, 200 I
Events
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Dedication of the Midwest Dairy Institute (MDI)
Milbank, South Dakota, June 7, 2001
A "Target Switzerland" Evening, Ted Hattemer
A "Target Switzerland" Evening, Ted Hattemer
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Swiss Benevolent Association (SBA) of Greater Cincinnati invited
members and friends residing in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana as well as in
Detroit and Chicago to attend a "Target Switzerland" Evening on Saturday,
April 28, 2001 at the Drawbridge Inn in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. The SBA
believed that it was most important that Americans in general and Swiss
Americans and their descendants in particular know the true story of
Switzerland's situation and actions during the Second World War.
Comments And Announcements, Lukas F. Burckhardt
Comments And Announcements, Lukas F. Burckhardt
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Swiss General Strike of 1918
Lukas F. Burckhardt, Bern