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Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
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 …
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 …
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, …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
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 …
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 …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
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 …
My Father's Story, Jens Peter Nielsen
My Father's Story, Jens Peter Nielsen
The Bridge
Jens Peter Nelsen, was born November 28, 1889 and was married to Gertrude Elizabeth Nelsen on July 14, 1915. They had eight children. He worked on the home farm until the fall of 1911 when he took a job in Ringsted, Iowa, where he learned sheet-metal work. For some years he had his own business, but in the 1920s, as result of poor economic conditions, he took a job in Dennison, Iowa, for about a year. From Dennison he, and his family, moved to Storm Lake, Iowa, for a year before moving to Sioux City, Iowa, where they lived for …
A Memoir Honoring Marie And Henry Werbes, Beverly White
A Memoir Honoring Marie And Henry Werbes, Beverly White
The Bridge
Washday was always a major event in our household when we were children. Early every Monday morning Dad helped Mother get the necessary equipment set up. In the shed just below the kitchen, he rolled the washing machine into place, and set the two washtubs for rinsing the clothes on sawhorses around it. Then he hauled two large cream cans of hot water from the creamery (about a block away), one for the washer and one for the first rinse tub. For the second rinse tub he pumped soft water from the cistern: Mother always put bluing in that rinse …
A Land Conquered Nebraska's Mirage Flats, 1918 -1948, Norma C. Shirck
A Land Conquered Nebraska's Mirage Flats, 1918 -1948, Norma C. Shirck
The Bridge
As the Civil War ground to an end in 1865 and Nebraska gained statehood in 1867, men and women turned their attention to the west, ever seeking a better way of life. Immigrants from Europe continued to swarm the shores of America and mingle with the pioneers trudging toward the western sun. The Danes, too, finding little in their homeland to keep them there, or escaping the heavy hands of the German military, flocked to the promised land.
Jens Horstrup: A Labor Legacy, Shannon Kracht
Jens Horstrup: A Labor Legacy, Shannon Kracht
The Bridge
When Jens Horstrup was a young man, his father Albert taught him that every worker had a right to take part in decisions made by his or her employer. It was a lesson that he carried - and re-taught - for the remainder of his life. Born in July, 1907, in Fredrickshavn to a ship patternmaker father, Jens opted for the bricklaying trade. He served a seven-year apprenticeship in Denmark, worked as a bricklayer in his country for awhile, and, seeking the challenges inherent in new opportunities, traveled to America in 1927. In his book, The Danish Americans, George R. …
My First Ninety Years, Agneta Jensen Slott
My First Ninety Years, Agneta Jensen Slott
The Bridge
My father and mother, John Christian and Anne Jensen and three children, Signius, Katherine and Kamille, came to America from Denmark in 1890. They settled in Tacoma for three years where my father worked as a bricklayer. Fremming, their fourth child, was born while they lived in Tacoma. After three years they came to Enumclaw, bought some wooded acreage which is now part of the King County Fair Grounds. My father cleared a space big enough to build a house. He worked in a logging camp and walked four miles to and from work. In 1893 they moved to Franklin …