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Congratulatory Message, Leo Schelbert
Congratulatory Message, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Early this year I received from Professor Fritz Marti the following charming note:
Dear Professor Schelbert: - Born January 1, 1894 and thus from 'the last century' I may almost earn the attention of the Historical Society. And since I am also a neighbor, you might want me over for a speech some day....
Fritz Marti - The Course Of A Busy Life
Fritz Marti - The Course Of A Busy Life
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Born January 1, 1894, Winterthur, Canton Zurich, Switzerland
Public Elementary School Winterthur, 1900-1906
Municipal Gymnasium Bern, 1906-1913, graduated with maximal honors
"Religion And Philosophy": Selections From Fritz Marti's Collected Papers, L. S.
"Religion And Philosophy": Selections From Fritz Marti's Collected Papers, L. S.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
For the layman the philosopher's quest is at times difficult to comprehend, and yet, we neglect his world at our own peril. Even if we do not grasp the full meaning of his answers, or worse, if we do not even understand his questions, our effort will nevertheless be rewarded. It will at least reveal that surface reality may be likened to a shield that protects from those arrows of questions that target the mysterious abyss of which we humans are all a part and whose contemplation is bound to set us free.
The Marti School, 1947=1964, Fritz Marti
The Marti School, 1947=1964, Fritz Marti
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Marti School was founded in 1947 in lower Salem, Ohio, first under the name of the Marti Farm Home School, and then the Berglihof School, for the benefit of the six Marti children. Dr. and Mrs. Marti felt they could not let the children waste half of their youth in the necessarily slow moving rural school of the neighborhood.
Happenstance Or Providence, Or How I Found All My Jobs, Fritz Marti
Happenstance Or Providence, Or How I Found All My Jobs, Fritz Marti
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A man's life is shaped by decisions often not his own. Even before my conception it was decided what I was to be, and the date of my birth, too, was decisive.
Philosophical Publications Of Fritz Marti
Philosophical Publications Of Fritz Marti
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A collection of publications by Fritz Marti.
Introduction, Heinz K. Meier
Introduction, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
By accident, or evolution if you will, rather than by design, this issue of the SAHS Newsletter has become a special number devoted entirely to the great Swiss-American bridge builder Othmar H. Ammann who was born one hundred years ago in Feuerthalen, Canton Zurich. Sincere thanks are due to Mr. Urs Widmer, mayor of Winterthur, whose special interest in Ammann led to the production of most of the materials used in this Newsletter, and to Dr. Margot Ammann Durrer whose personal reminiscences add a delightful human touch to the story.
Othmar Hermann Ammann, 1879-1965. His Way To Great Bridges, Urs C. Widmer, Heinz K. Meier
Othmar Hermann Ammann, 1879-1965. His Way To Great Bridges, Urs C. Widmer, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In 1904, O. H. Ammann, aged 25, freshly graduated civil engineer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, went to the United States encouraged by his former teacher in hydraulics, Professor Karl Emil Hilgard, who had himself worked as bridge engineer on the Northern Pacific Railway. More than anything else the young engineer wanted to widen his horizon and to gain some experience to follow-up his sound professional training, which he owed in part to Professor Wilhelm Ritter and to three years in the field in Switzerland and Germany. To his surprise he was immediately employed by Joseph …
Memories Of My Father, Margot Ammann Durrer
Memories Of My Father, Margot Ammann Durrer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Father's childhood was spent in Feuerthalen, a small town in Canton Zurich, Switzerland. The beautiful city of Schaffhausen lies on the right bank of the Rhine and the town of Feuerthalen on the left, just above the magnificient Rhine Falls. The sharp turn of the Rhine makes a partial island of this district, so bridges form an important part of communication for the inhabitants.
Bibliography: Publications By And About O. H. Ammann
Bibliography: Publications By And About O. H. Ammann
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A collection of publications by and about Othmar Ammann.
The Fixed Frame And The Live Show, Johannes Knudsen
The Fixed Frame And The Live Show, Johannes Knudsen
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Television has developed a trick of ending a story or a sequence by showing a fixed picture of the final frame, giving a rather vivid expression to the immediate or concluding situation. Sometimes this picture is amusing, even ludicrous, evoking a smile; sometimes a tear lingers on.
Homage To Hans Christian, Henrik Nordbrandt, Nadia Christensen, Translator
Homage To Hans Christian, Henrik Nordbrandt, Nadia Christensen, Translator
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Now I understand all the statues you had to pose for how hard it's been to sit still, casting shadows
over the lawn, where children like those now clambering on your bronze must have played laughing, in a twitter of birds
while you, shut out from the game, tried desperately to resemble the picture of yourself that made you seem most harmless.
Simple Psychoanalysis, Henrik Nordbrandt, Nadia Christensen, Translator
Simple Psychoanalysis, Henrik Nordbrandt, Nadia Christensen, Translator
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Especially the ordinary things about the day make the day especially depressing. It's quite ordinary. Especially in autumn. The autumn afternoon
keeps even thoughts of suicide and dreams of distant exotic places from being taken seriously. Which doesn't mean they're fun.
One Of Many, Dagmar Potholm Petersen
One Of Many, Dagmar Potholm Petersen
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On an early spring evening in the year of 1891 a young man stood leaning against the rai I of the steamship Tekla of the Danish Tingvalla Line, his dark hair blowing in the breeze and his blue eyes riveted on the scene before him. He was entirely oblivious to the commotion around him, even to the boisterous calls of his shipmates, "We're there - at last we're there - soon we'll be picking up gold from the streets and licking honey from the trees."
Carl Hansen, Prairie Iconoclast, Donald K. Watkins
Carl Hansen, Prairie Iconoclast, Donald K. Watkins
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In 1906 Ivar Kirkegaard, editor of the magazine Norden in Racine , Wisconsin, asked the writer Carl Hansen for personal information that might be included in a biographical sketch in the journal. Carl Hansen of Tyler, Minnesota, was forty-six at the time, and by his own count the author of some seventy sketches and short stories. In reply to Kirkegaard, Hansen revealed that in his student days in Copenhagen he has been caught up in the intellectual ferment of "the Modern Breakthrough," the assertive embrace by Scandinavian intellectuals of socially critical realism. "Det moderne gennembrud" had no single philosophical doctrine …
A Comparative Study Of Sophus Keith Winther And Carl Hansen, Rudolf J. Jensen
A Comparative Study Of Sophus Keith Winther And Carl Hansen, Rudolf J. Jensen
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This short poem written by Carl Hansen expresses the essential conflicts of the Danish emigrant in the United States. In their relentless struggle to survive on the plains of the American midwest, two concerns dominated the consciousness of the emigrant. One was the continuous sense of doubt about the wisdom leaving the old country and the other was the necessarily unanswered question of whether the privations of their present life would be rewarded by the success of the following generations. The dreams and hopes of most Danish-American emigrants were in fact not fulfilled in accordance with their expectations. Neither the …
Danes Worldwide Archives Contains Treasures Of Immigrant Life, Marion Marzolf
Danes Worldwide Archives Contains Treasures Of Immigrant Life, Marion Marzolf
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A typical four-room apartment in an average Danish neighborhood in Aalborg, Denmark, houses an extraordinary treasure for those interested in their Danish roots. It looks like an ordinary apartment from the outisde, but once the door is opened by Curator Inger Bladt, it is clear that housed here are the living memories of many of the 300,000 Danes who left their homeland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to seek work, land, fortune and fate in foreign countries, mainly the U.S.
"Schools For Life", Harold Petersen
"Schools For Life", Harold Petersen
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A man having read Schools For Life remarked, "It is a good book, but Enok still hasn't told us what a folk school is." I doubt that there is any living American today who knows better what a folk is than Enok Mortensen. If he has not defined what a folk school is through the pages of his book it is because- the folk school cannot be defined in such a way that it has- meaning to a person who does not know what the folk school is. It has to be experienced . It carries with it a spirit …
"Heinrich Tonnies", Egon P. Bodtker
"Heinrich Tonnies", Egon P. Bodtker
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Heinrich Tonnies has been known to Danish archivists and photo-historians primarily for his topographical views of Aalborg. His pictures made Aalborg the second most photographed city in Denmark in the 19th century. Alexander Alland has ensured Tonnies a place among recorders of social history by the exhibit in Aalborg he arranged in 1975. For this redirection of our attention we in D.A.H.S. and others are indeed thankful.
Danish American Political Behavior: The Case Of Iowa, 1887-1936, Stephen H. Rye
Danish American Political Behavior: The Case Of Iowa, 1887-1936, Stephen H. Rye
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Although thousands of Danish immigrants settled in Iowa, often in communities which can readily be identified, there is some difficulty in isolating voting units which were composed largely of Danish Americans. For example, Fredsville, a settlement located west of Cedar Falls in Grundy County, became the home of a sizeable Danish community, but in the voting unit of Fairfield Township, census materials demonstrate that the non-Danish voters slightly outnumbered the Danes in the late nineteenth century. However, at least five Iowa townships can be identified as having a clear majority of voters who were Danish in background, and this study …
Thoughts At Sunrise, Olaf R. Juhl
Thoughts At Sunrise, Olaf R. Juhl
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Good Morning - and will the class please come to order.
Could it be that I choose this opening because I, as far back as I can remember, wanted to be a teacher? Somehow I never quite made it, although I believe that I could have if circumstances during a certain period of my youth had not had other designs for me. Let me add that any regrets I might have today are purely of a sentimental nature.
This morning we shall attempt to analyze the trials and tribulations, the mental problems and misgivings of an American, by adoption, in …
P.S. Vig And The Americanization Issue During World War I, Peter L. Petersen
P.S. Vig And The Americanization Issue During World War I, Peter L. Petersen
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World War I and the Americanization campaigns which accompanied it had a pr0found impact upon ethnic relations in the United States. Although German-Americans bore the brunt of rapidly emerging anti-foreign sentiments, no ethnic group was totally free of suspicion and public condemnation. In Iowa, Governor William Lloyd Harding defended his proclamation forbidding the public use of foreign languages by attacking the Danish element in the Hawkeye State's population. According to the Governor, who was speaking before a large crowd at Sac City on July 4, 1918, young Danes in Iowa were not getting a proper American upbringing. Pointing to the …
Membership Form
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