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Notes On Recent Publications, Leo Schelbert
Notes On Recent Publications, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II, Rainer Ruckert Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection. Vol. 1: Meissen Porcelain and 'Hausmalerai'. Washington, D.C.: Smithonian Istitution Press, 1979. 607 pp., 400 ills.
Fritz Marti, editor and translator, The Unconditional in Human Knowledge. Four Early Essays (1794-1796) of F.W.J. Schelling. Lweisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1980. 271 pp.
Address To Swiss Living Abroad By The President Of The Swiss Confederation, Georges-Andre Chevallaz
Address To Swiss Living Abroad By The President Of The Swiss Confederation, Georges-Andre Chevallaz
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This 1st of August anniversary - commemorating the joint alliance sworn in the year 1921 by the three founding cantons of Switzerland, Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden --affords the President of the Swiss Confederation the welcome opportunity of addressing Swiss citizens abroad and also many foreign friends of Switzerland.
Urs Schwarz, The Eye Of The Hurricane: Switzerland In World War Two, Heinz K. Meier
Urs Schwarz, The Eye Of The Hurricane: Switzerland In World War Two, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
"Switzerland in World War II" has become a favorite object of investigation and subject of treatment by Swiss journalists, publicists, political scientists and historians. The flood of articles and monographs on every conceivable aspect of that topic has become so overwhelming as to make it almost impossible for one person to keep track of it, let alone read and digest it. And yet, according to Urs Schwarz, ther is a gap in this outpouring of hsitorical literature: There are no English language accounts on the role of neutral Switzerland in World War II. His Book The eye of the Hurricane …
Jacob Burckhardt, The Historian, As Analyst Of His Age, Walter L. Mullen
Jacob Burckhardt, The Historian, As Analyst Of His Age, Walter L. Mullen
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Often the historian is faced with the question of how the study of the past relates to the present. Even when Leopold von Ranke's admonition is followed, and we try to tell history "as it essentially was" and eliminate subjectivity, purely personal opinions are difficult to keep out of formal academic work. Even when objectivity is attempted, the historian will have personal convictions about the object of his study in relation to his own existence.
Letter From The President, Leo Schelbert
Letter From The President, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Annual Meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society will be held this year on Saturday, October 25, 1980, at the Kiva Auditorium of Temple University, located at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Columbia Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Professor Samuel Lauchli, a faculty member of Temple University's Departrrent of Religion and Honorary Consul for Switzerland, and Mrs. Theodore J. Finckh who has played a decisive role in the affairs of the SAHS for many years, will make the necessary arrangements. Their generous and indispensable help is gratefully acknowledged.
Robert H. Billigmeier, A Crisis In Swiss Pluralism, Leo Schelbert
Robert H. Billigmeier, A Crisis In Swiss Pluralism, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The author, Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, presents a study that is clearly a labor of love, an analytical tour de force, and a toughminded professional diagnosis. It is devoted to the Swiss segment of the once large community of Romansh speakers who resided in the Alpine regions between Italy and Northern Europe. The remnant occupies today a similar position as the Basques in Spain and France, the Flemish in Belgium, or the Lapps in the northern borderlands who are also encircled by more numerous and powerful linguistic groups. Professor Billigmeier views the Romansh, …
Karl Luond, Schweizer In Amerika., Bruno Gujer
Karl Luond, Schweizer In Amerika., Bruno Gujer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
As a Swiss in America one is particularly sensitive about what is written in Switzerland about America and Swiss immigrants here. Karl Luond's Schweizer in Amerika is a welcome though flawed introduction to thegreat saga of Swiss immigration to this country. Welcome, because Luond covers the most important names and places, and gives insight into the great diversity among the men and women who attempted a new beginning across the Atlantic. One marvels at the achievement of a Gallatin, Ammann or Zwick, at the wealth of a Guggenheim or Frick, at the hardships of the pioneer settlers.
Letter From The President, Leo Schelbert
Letter From The President, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Permit me to bring two items to your attention. First, in accordance with the decision taken at the last annual meeting, the SAHS has purchased for distribution 250 copies of Gayle Thornbrough, ed., The Correspondence of John Badollet and Albert Gallatin 1804 - 1836, published by the Indiana Historical Society in 1963. A complimentary copy will be sent to each member in early June with the hope that you will enjoy the work. (Please notify me in case a copy does not reach you in due time.)
Swiss Food And Foodways In Early Pennsylvania, William Woys Weaver
Swiss Food And Foodways In Early Pennsylvania, William Woys Weaver
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
When the immigrants from Basel composed this song about corning to Pennsylvania in 1803, I do not think they realized --in spite of their enthusiasrn--what a very strange mixture of things they would find there a century and a half ago. Certainly, this was a major area of Swiss settlernent and in spite of the pressures of acculturation, there were many foods that the 1803 settlers would recognize from their homeland.
Tracing Your Swiss Roots. By Maralyn A. Wellauer., Sandra H. Luebking
Tracing Your Swiss Roots. By Maralyn A. Wellauer., Sandra H. Luebking
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
These three works offer a pleasantly optimistic view of Swiss research. The disadvantages of not one, but four, national languages, (German, French, Italian , and Romansh), and a lack of federal census schedules or military pension files are more than offset by the availability of records relatively untouched by war, political instability, or extensive civil boundary changes. Particularly reassuring is Mr. Nielson's observation that, with few exceptions, one can trace his lineage in Switzerland to about the time of the Reformation. However, success is not synonymous with simplicity. All three authors stress the inability of one publica tion to deal …
Purrysburg, An Archaeological Survey, Larry Lepionka
Purrysburg, An Archaeological Survey, Larry Lepionka
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
An archaeological reconnaissance of the colonial site of Purrysburg, on the Savannah River in Jasper County, South Carolina, has been conducted intermittently through the year 1979, with the goal of locating structural or other artifactual remains of the original Swiss settlement established here in 1733. Work was restricted to a surface search with only limited subsurface testing. Brick outcroppings occurred at various locations but their date could not be ascertained without extensive excavation. Artifact scatters including datable ceramics were common and suggest a peak in occupation between 1790 and 1820, well after the initial Swiss settlement. Early and middle 18th …
From The Kansas Plains To The Kentucky Hills, Walter R. Wullschleger
From The Kansas Plains To The Kentucky Hills, Walter R. Wullschleger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The News Letters and Bulletin reached me today. I am delighted to have these fine periodicals. I had no idea that your find society was in existence.
A Swedish American In Search Of His French Swiss Roots, Carl J. Olson
A Swedish American In Search Of His French Swiss Roots, Carl J. Olson
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Gentlemen:
I recently noted your name and address when looking up another item of interest in a local library book (reference section) entitled: "How to Find Your Family Roots," a 1977 publication, authorized by Beard-Demong.
The Sixteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Bruno Gujer, Leo Schelbert
The Sixteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Bruno Gujer, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The sixteenth annual meeting of the reactivated SAHS was held on Saturday, October 27, 1979, at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C.
125 Years Gloor Family In The United States, Richard D. Gloor
125 Years Gloor Family In The United States, Richard D. Gloor
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Enclosed is a copy of a narrative dated 14 July 75 about my GLOOR family. I have pieced it together by research and travel to Tell City Ind. Casper GLOOR, the immigrant from Switzerland, was a member of the Swiss Colonization Society. He journeyed from Cincinnati down the Ohio River and helped found Tell City Ind.
Early Christmas At Emmanual Church, Bertha Louise Goetsch
Early Christmas At Emmanual Church, Bertha Louise Goetsch
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
I am of Swiss ancestry on both sides of the family. My paternal Grandfather Andreas Schifferly, b. 1811, was from Kt. Aargau. My mother was a Stalder from Lutzelfluh, b. 1851, and baptized by the eminent Jeremias Gotthelf, who was also a dear fried of the Stalder family, as well as their pastor. His novels were so much enjoyed by this family, and they carried them to the USA when they left Switzerland for Ohio, in 1853.
To Our Readers, Heinz K. Meier
To Our Readers, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
1. Enclosed with this Newsletter, SAHS members will receive a copy of the long awaited Swiss Genealogical Research: An Introductory Guide by Paul Anthon Nielson. Additional copies may be purchased a a reduced membership price of $3.25 from our president Dr. Leo Schelbert, 2523 Asbury Avenue, Evanston, Illinois 60201; or at the regular price of $4.95 from the publisher, The Donning Co., 5041 Admiral Wright Road, Virginia Beach, VA 23462. The officers of the SAHS hope that you enjoy this gift and recognize it as one of the ways in which they try to make membership in the society worthwhile …
A Sampling Of Swiss Experiences In The United States Of America, Heinz K. Meier
A Sampling Of Swiss Experiences In The United States Of America, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Through the years we have come in contact with many Swiss Americans and Americans of Swiss origin. Some of them have opened themselves up and have given us a view of their background, their concerns and their interests. The rest of the space in this Newsletter is given over to four of them.