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The University Of Texas At San Antonio Institute Of Texan Cultures, Heinz K. Meier Jun 1978

The University Of Texas At San Antonio Institute Of Texan Cultures, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Peter Mansbendel was born in Basel in 1883 and came to the United States in his early twenties. In New York he met a well-to-do Texan beauty. They married and eventually settled in Austin, Texas. From 1915 to his death, in 1940, Mansbendel pursued his calling of woodcarver by doing pieces of furniture, fireplace mantels, portrait plaques and busts and other kinds of decorative works for individual patrons and institutions such as the University of Texas.

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Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An Annotated Checklist, Leo Schelbert, Sandra Luebking Jun 1978

Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An Annotated Checklist, Leo Schelbert, Sandra Luebking

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In the decades after 1520 the people of Western Europe experienced a thorough religious transformation. Instead of one Western Christendom centered in Rome a variety of competing interpretations of true Christianity emerged that were able to translate their assumptions into viable and enduring institutions. Among the emerging persuasions one group was unique, however: its members, scornfully called "catabaptists" or " anabaptists" - re-baptizers - by their opponents, rejected the millennia-old idea of the corpus christianum which postulates the unity between the ecclesiastical and political domain. For the Brethren, as they called themselves, the secular world was not an aspect of …

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Introductory Remarks, Heinz K. Meier Jun 1978

Introductory Remarks, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This issue of the SAHS Newsletter is given almost entirely to a genealogical article by Leo Schelbert and Sandra Luebking that has previously been published in the Summer 1977 issue of Pennsylvania Folklife (Vol. XXVI, No. 5). We are grateful to Dr. Don Yoder, editor of Pennsylvania Folklife, for permission to copy the article in its entirety. Schelbert and S. Luebking, a teacher and genealogist in Chicago, have added an index of the names in all their spelling variations that should prove helpful to users of the annotated checklist.

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The Institute Of Texan Cultures, The Swiss Texans1978, Heinz K. Meier Jun 1978

The Institute Of Texan Cultures, The Swiss Texans1978, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This is an illustrated, indexed brochure, 26 double-columned pages in length. The Swiss are introduced as "The most cosmopolitan immigrants to come to Texas with the least reason for coming ... " This statement contains important clues about the nature of Swiss emigration and the difficulties of writing about it. Due to the absence of strong outside determining factors such as "ideological oppression, economic depressions and natural catastrophes," decisions to leave Switzerland were almost always individually colored. There were no more or less uniform mass emigrations and very few large-scale settlement enterprises. The phrase "most cosmopolitan" in the introductory quotation …

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Front Matter Jun 1978

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Introductory Pages, Byu Studies Apr 1978

Introductory Pages, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Full Issue, Byu Studies Apr 1978

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Guest Editor's Introduction, Lamar C. Berrett Apr 1978

Guest Editor's Introduction, Lamar C. Berrett

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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End Matter, Byu Studies Apr 1978

End Matter, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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Full Issue Feb 1978

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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Biography Of J. J. Von Grueningen, John Paul Von Grueningen Feb 1978

Biography Of J. J. Von Grueningen, John Paul Von Grueningen

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

My father, Johann Jakob von Grueningen, who for thirty-four years served as pastor of the Reformed Church at Sauk City, Wisconsin, was born in Gstaad, Saanen Parish, Canton Bern, Switzerland, November 23, 1845, and died at Sauk City, May 23, 1911. From the time of his college days at St. Chrischona he used the older spelling of his family name. In explaining the variant spellings of the name, he writes in his memoirs:

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Front Matter Feb 1978

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Introductory Remarks, Heinz K. Meier Feb 1978

Introductory Remarks, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This, the first nurrber of the fourteenth volume of the SAHS Newsletter, contains only two parts, the report of our 1977 annual meeting in Philadelphia and a biographical account of the life of J. J. von Grueningen, a 19th century Swiss immigrant to Wisconsin, by his son John Paul von Grueningen who was an active member and officer of the SAHS during its Madison years (1940s). I find this biographical sketch not only lively and colorful but moving at times and full of descriptive insights into the hardships of 19th century immigration.

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The Fourteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Bruno Gujer, Leo Schelbert Feb 1978

The Fourteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Bruno Gujer, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The fourteenth annual meeting of the reactivated SAHS was beld on Saturday, October 29, 1977, at the Faculty Club of the University of Pennsylvania, located on 36th and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Heidis Lehr- Und Wanderjahre, Johanna Spyri Jan 1978

Heidis Lehr- Und Wanderjahre, Johanna Spyri

Prose Fiction

Erstdruck (anonym): Gotha (Justus Perthes) 1880. : Zum Alm-Öhi; hinauf Beim Großvater; Auf der Weide; Bei der Großmutter; Es kommt ein Besuch und dann noch einer, der mehr Folgen hat; Ein neues Kapitel und lauter neue Dinge; Fräulein Rottenmeier hat einen unruhigen Tag; Im Hause Sesemann geht’s unruhig zu; Der Hausherr hört allerlei in seinem Hause; Eine Großmama; Heidi nimmt auf einer Seite zu und auf der anderen ab; Im Hause Sesemann spukt’s; Am Sommerabend die Alm hinan; Am Sonntag, wenn’s läutet

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Deutsche Dichterinnen Vom 16. Jahrhundert Bis Zur Gegenwart Gedichte Und Lebensläufe, Gisela Brinker-Gabler Jan 1978

Deutsche Dichterinnen Vom 16. Jahrhundert Bis Zur Gegenwart Gedichte Und Lebensläufe, Gisela Brinker-Gabler

Prose Nonfiction

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The Comet, Leona Holbrook Jan 1978

The Comet, Leona Holbrook

BYU Studies

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Full Issue, Byu Studies Jan 1978

Full Issue, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

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A Survey Of Mormon Literary Criticism, Colin B. Douglas Jan 1978

A Survey Of Mormon Literary Criticism, Colin B. Douglas

Theses and Dissertations

Three general questions concerning literature have been addressed by the writers considered in this thesis: What constitutes a work of literary art? What ought to be valued by Latter-day Saints in a literary work? How should criticism be conducted by Latter-day Saints? To the first question, five basic answers have been proposed: significant form, uplifting thought content clothed in decorative form, typological symbol, ikon (as the word is used by C S lewis in An Experiment in Criticism), and capacity for helping the reader achieve a kind of "negative capability." These definitions also tend to be statements of value, …

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Young Heber J. Grant And His Call To The Apostleship, Ronald W. Walker Jan 1978

Young Heber J. Grant And His Call To The Apostleship, Ronald W. Walker

BYU Studies

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Thomas L. Kane Meets The Mormons, Donald Q. Cannon Jan 1978

Thomas L. Kane Meets The Mormons, Donald Q. Cannon

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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Heidi Kann Brauchen, Was Es Gelernt Hat, Johanna Spyri Jan 1978

Heidi Kann Brauchen, Was Es Gelernt Hat, Johanna Spyri

Prose Fiction

Erstdruck: Gotha (Justus Perthes) : Reisezurüstungen; Ein Gast auf der Alm; Eine Vergeltung; Der Winter im Dörfli; Der Winter dauert noch fort; Die fernen Freunde regen sich; Wie es auf der Alp weiter geht; Es geschieht, was keiner erwartet hat; Es wird Abschied genommen, aber auf Wiedersehen

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End Matter, Byu Studies Jan 1978

End Matter, Byu Studies

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

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Some Thoughts On Acculturation, Otto G. Hoiberg Jan 1978

Some Thoughts On Acculturation, Otto G. Hoiberg

The Bridge

Three years ago an important work entitled Flight to America - The Social Background of 300,000 Danish Emigrants was published by Kristian Hvidt(1), Head Librarian of the Danish Parliamentary Library in Copenhagen. Dr. Hvidt's painstaking demographic study of 58 handwritten volumes of data ralating to America-bound Danish emigrants between 1868 and 1914, together with computer analysis, revealed a wealth of interesting information relating to the age, sex, family status, occupation, motivation and other characteristics of the people concerned.

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The Massacre In Thistle Valley, Albert Winkler Jan 1978

The Massacre In Thistle Valley, Albert Winkler

Faculty Publications

War broke out between the white settlers of Utah and the Ute Indians in 1865. Before the whites could gather for better defense, the Ute Indians struck a house made of willows in 1865. All six members of the Given family were killed, and they were all buried in a the same wagon box in the Fairview, Utah, Cemetery.

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An Analysis Of The Speaking Style Of Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Leader, James Francis O'Connor Jan 1978

An Analysis Of The Speaking Style Of Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Leader, James Francis O'Connor

Theses and Dissertations

The primary function of this thesis was to determine, through the analysis of three randomly selected speeches, the speaking style of Heber C. Kimball. The selected speeches were presented in three different utah locations, and they covered a span of nine years (1856-65). All three speeches were presented to a Mormon audience and were religious in nature.

Seven elements of style have been used for the analysis of the three speeches. They are: accuracy, clarity, propriety, economy, force, striking quality, and liveliness. It was determined that President Kimball's speaking style was weak in the areas of accuracy and clarity. In …

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Front Cover Jan 1978

Front Cover

The Bridge

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Inside Cover Jan 1978

Inside Cover

The Bridge

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Table Of Contents Jan 1978

Table Of Contents

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

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Do Your Homework!, Thorvald Hansen Jan 1978

Do Your Homework!, Thorvald Hansen

The Bridge

I once heard a young American ask a Danish visitor whether or not he was acquainted with the inquirer's uncle in Denmark. It quickly developed that the only thing which the young man knew about his uncle was his family name. Incredible as it may seem, such things happen and though to a lesser degree, they happen frequently when a search is made for overseas ancestors. Denmark is a relatively small country and the unspoken assumption is often made that everyone there knows everyone else and, therefore, one need only know the name and the fact that an ancestor came …

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