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Full Issue Mar 1974

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Nov 1973

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Summer Meeting Of Sahs In Zurch, July 23, 1973, Rolf Kieser Nov 1973

Summer Meeting Of Sahs In Zurch, July 23, 1973, Rolf Kieser

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The summer meeting of SAHS - already a kind of tradition - took place at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich to be guided through the 75 years' Exhibition of the Museum by the director, Dr. Hugo Schenider.


History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier Nov 1973

History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The man elected as president of the Swiss American Historical Society in the spring of 1940 was Emil J. Schaefer. Born in 18 92 in Zurich- Hongg, he came to the United States as a 19 year old youth who just had finished the Gymnasium n Winterthur. He attended several colleges in the Midwest and earned a master 's degree in education from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. As a trained educator he worked his way up through teaching at different high schools. On the side he taught part-time at colleges and the University of Wisconsin on the subject …


Rene Naville, Amerindians Et Anciennes Cultures Precolombiennes: Book Review, Leo Schelbert Nov 1973

Rene Naville, Amerindians Et Anciennes Cultures Precolombiennes: Book Review, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Rene Naville, an active diplomat and writer introduces his readers in this work to a variety of Swiss scholars who as travelers or as academicians have dealt with aspects of the native cultures of the Western Hemisphere. The study of these men is to reveal the Swiss presance in the Americans as well as Latin American and Amerindian presence in Switzerland. The auhor bases his findings mainly on secondary sources: this is an attempted synthesis, not a presentation of original new findings.


Meetings In Honor Of Louis Agassiz, Lukas F. Burckhardt Nov 1973

Meetings In Honor Of Louis Agassiz, Lukas F. Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

It is fitting that Lousi Agassiz (1807-1873) be honored this year which marks the centennial of his death. The great pioneering scientist is renowned in Switzerland for his research on glaciers and the glacial ages, as well as in the U.S.A. As founder of the first comprehensive museum of the nautral sciences and as an outstanding teacher at Harvard University.


Reisebericht Der Familie Kopfli & Suppiger St. Louis Am Mississippi And Grundung Von New-Switzerland Im Staate Illinois: Book Review, Hedwig Rappolt Nov 1973

Reisebericht Der Familie Kopfli & Suppiger St. Louis Am Mississippi And Grundung Von New-Switzerland Im Staate Illinois: Book Review, Hedwig Rappolt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The book is a facsimile reproduction of the 1833 edition, a small volume appealing in appearance and pleasant to hold. It describes, in the form of a diary and letters, the experiences of a group of Swiss who emigrated to the prairies of Illinois. Two-thirds of it are devoted to the Journey, the ordeal of "getting there": from Sursee to Base l, through France to Havre, on a three-master to New York and over rivers and canals to St. Louis, Missouri the last stepping stone efore settling in Illinois.


Full Issue Nov 1973

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Fritz Medicus, On Being Human . The Life Of Truth And Its Realization: Book Review, Leo Schelbert Nov 1973

Fritz Medicus, On Being Human . The Life Of Truth And Its Realization: Book Review, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This is a difficult book, the summary of a philosopher's final insights into "Truth and Its Realization". In a language simulataneously straightforward and compledx, questions of logic, ethics, and ultimate values are discussed, all within a tight network of post-Kantian, partly scholastic (that is Judeo-Christianized Aristotelian), Partly idealist (especially Fichtean) concepts. The study demands much patience and willingess to follow a sustained arguement which starts with a critique of phenomenological assumptions and culminates in a redefinition of religion as the domain not of credal structures but of ultimate concern.


Notes In Brief, Leo Schelbert Nov 1973

Notes In Brief, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Hans Lang-Hembd, "Otto Stoll zum 50. Todestag," Enthologische Zeitschrift Zurich, II (1972), pp. 6-12


The 51 Meeting Of The Swiss Abroad In St. Gallen, Leo Schelbert Sep 1973

The 51 Meeting Of The Swiss Abroad In St. Gallen, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

From August 17 to 19, 1973, many Swiss living abroad met in St. Gallen under the auspices of the secretariat of the Swiss Abroad, a branch of the New Helvetic Society. The topic of this year's plenary session was of great interest: "Swiss Societies and Institutions Abroad and Their Activitiies." A wide range of such institutions was discussed by speakers who were all activly involved in their maintenance and development.


News From The President, Heinz K. Meier May 1973

News From The President, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In April we received the sad news of the death of Mario Muschi. The editor of the San Francisco-based Swiss Journal, Mr. Muschi had been a member of our society for many years and had served on our Board of Advisors. His obituary by his son Achille Muschi, reprinted in the Amerikanische Schweizer Zeitung of April 18, 1973, states that Mario Muschi was born in Tesserete (Ticino) in 1893 and came to this country in 1915. He spent his life in working for his beloved Swiss Journal with which he s erved the many Swiss on the West Coast. The …


Introductory Remarks, Leo Schelbert May 1973

Introductory Remarks, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

It is a great pleasure to present in this newsletter Part Two of Professor Heinz K. Meier's absorbing sketch of the history of the Swiss American Historical Society. He shows ppw many minds tried their best in making the organization relevant, and their efforts remain an inspiration to those engaged in carrying on what they had so enthusiastically begun. Success based on competence and unity of purpose does not come easily as Professor Meier's story clearly shows, but the perspective of time reveals past crises as seemingly unavoidable growth pains and selfless respect for the work of others as perhaps …


Jean Rodolphe De Salis, Switzerland And Europe. Essays And Reflections., Leo Schelbert May 1973

Jean Rodolphe De Salis, Switzerland And Europe. Essays And Reflections., Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This book will be especially welcome to Swiss Americans who do not read German, yet are interested in keeping in touch with their country of origin or want to introduce it to their grown children. Ven Salis, widely known in Switzerland and beyond, can serve as a stimulating and sensitive guide to an understanding of the nature of the Swiss polity, of its past struggles, and of its present attempts at self-definition within the broader European and world community. A lucid and vivid style, well recreated in this translation, and a fair balance between controversial essay, disciplined historical sketch, and …


Short Reviews And Notices, Leo Schelbert May 1973

Short Reviews And Notices, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The family of Hans Ulrich Baggens toss of Rafz, Switzerland, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1743. Two m9re immigrations of Baggenstoss families from Rafz followed - one settled in Minnesota (1879); the other in Tennessee (1895). All appear related to the same Swiss ancestry. The earliest record of the name is found in 1401.


Front Matter May 1973

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Ulrich Braker, The Life Story And Real Adventures Of The Poor Man Of Toggenburg, Leo Schelbert May 1973

Ulrich Braker, The Life Story And Real Adventures Of The Poor Man Of Toggenburg, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Have you not sometimes wished to know in some detail how your (Swiss} ancestors, say of the 18th century, have lived, what kind of daily or unusual troubles they have faced, and what hopes and fears have sustained them? Derek Bowman's translation of t he autobiography of the "Poor Man of Toggenburg" makes just such a portrait available to American readers. It was painted by a writer who was unusual less in his external life-path than in his clarity of vision and in his power of description.


Hans C. Syz, Vom Sein Und Vom Sinn, Leo Schelbert May 1973

Hans C. Syz, Vom Sein Und Vom Sinn, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This account, written by a noted psychiatrist, describes a personal, powerful inner event which the author experienced in his twenty-first year as a student at the University of Zfirich, the city of his birth. On Sunday, May 14, 1916, a total anxiety had befallen him with a persistent overpowering force. During the days that followed the state of anxiety shifted and granted tpe young student shockingly magnificent glimpses into the fabric of the human condition. They are offered in this booklet with forceful simplicity.


History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier May 1973

History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The decade of the 1930's was a difficult time for most Americans with the depression blighting untold families and individuals. The Swiss Americans, like other ethnic groups, had an additional cause for concern inasmuch as the decade was characterized by isolationism in foreign relations and a wave of nativism at home. The introduction of immigration quotas in the 1920's indicated that the United States prepared itself to put obstacles in the way of free access to the country. Due to the depression the quotas were not even used up by most European countries. The "distant magnet" had lost much of …


Full Issue May 1973

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Remarks About This Newsletter, Heinz K. Meier Feb 1973

Remarks About This Newsletter, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Due to necessity as well as a series of unforeseeable circumstances, I was the only officer of the Swiss American Historical Society to attend our annual meeting in New Orleans. This is the reason why the report about the meeting is written by me rather than the secretary or another officer.


Swiss In New Orleans, John Geiser Iii Feb 1973

Swiss In New Orleans, John Geiser Iii

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In April of 1718, Pierre Le Moyne , Sieur de Bienville, Commandant General of the French colony of Louisiana, founded the City of New Orleans. For the next half century this was to be in reality a French city, named for the Regent and with streets called Toulouse, Chartres, Dumaine, Bourbon, Dauphine, and Rue Royale laid out according to the proper French plan around the Place d'Armes. The buildings were of a definite French style and the cultural and social lives of the settlers were as French as they could make them. The most popular French governors were the ones …


Full Issue Feb 1973

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Feb 1973

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier Feb 1973

History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

On Independence Day 1927, on the occa sion of the Swiss Singing Festival, a group of Swiss Americans living in the Chicago area decided to found a historical society. The idea had been in the air, so to speak. For some time , persons of different background and living in different parts of the country had been working diligently in that direction by encouraging existing Swis s societies to add another dimension to their activities and by gathering materials about "famous Swiss." They were annoyed and concerned "by the fact that every outstanding person of Swiss origin was claimed by …


The Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier, Dr. Imre De Kosinsky Feb 1973

The Ninth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier, Dr. Imre De Kosinsky

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The Ninth Annual Meeting of the reactivated Swiss American Historical Society was held on Saturday, December 30 , 1972, in New Orleans. The business meeting took place in the Rare Books Room of Tulane Library. Following the transaction of the business Mrs. Connie Griffith, Director of Special Collections, Tulane Library, showed the members present a few of her treasures from the collection of Swiss Consul Emil Hoehn. They include a multi-volume chronicle of world history written in the middle of the 16th century by Heinrich BuLlinger, Zwingli's famous successor at the Grossmilnster in Zurich, as well as another handwritten manuscript …


The History Of Medical Relations Between Switzerland And The Usa, Erwin H. Ackerknecht Feb 1973

The History Of Medical Relations Between Switzerland And The Usa, Erwin H. Ackerknecht

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

When in a symposium concerning the medical relations of Switzerland to other countries reports are given on the relations of Swiss medicine to German, French, Italian, English and Austrian medicine, the reasons are obvious. But it might be at first sight surprising that the USA are added to this traditional list of neighbors. This surprise is partly a consequence of outdated technological and geographical thought. Actually, through the airplane, New York is as close to Zurich as by railroad are Hamburg or Paris. We should become conscious of this new situation. But partly doubts remain legitimate. Have the relations between …


The Forthcoming Annual Meeting, H. K. Meier Jan 1973

The Forthcoming Annual Meeting, H. K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This year's annual meeting of the swiss American Historical Society will take place on Saturday, December 1, in New York. The SwissBenevolent Society of New York at 35 West 67th Street, New York, N.Y. will be available to us for this occasion. The business meeting is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to be followed by a luncheon at 1 p.m. and an afternoon session to begin at 2:30 p.m. Members of our society are not only invited but urged to attend the meeting and to participate in our activities. Friends are welcome both at the luncheon and the afternoon session.


Major Sources Of Genealogical Information, Paul Anthon Nielson A. G. Nov 1972

Major Sources Of Genealogical Information, Paul Anthon Nielson A. G.

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Genealogical research in Switzerland is unique in many aspects because of several national characteristics. The physical terrain and political neutrality of Switzerland have virtually withstood the plagues of war which have ravaged the continent. Four offical languages - German, French, Italian, and Romansch - are spoken in many dialects by the Germanic and Latin peoples who are united through the Swiss Confederation. Caatholicism and the protestant Swiss Reformed Church are two predominant religions. Finally, and perhaps most important of all, Swiss rights of citzenship (Heimatberechtigung) are based on the medieval form jus sanguinis, the lineage of an individual.


Book Review: Descendants Of Nine Rohrbach Immigrants To Colonial America 1709-1754 And More Than One Hundred Rohrbach Immigrants To America 1820-1900 Including The Families Of Rohrbach, Paul Anthon Nielson Nov 1972

Book Review: Descendants Of Nine Rohrbach Immigrants To Colonial America 1709-1754 And More Than One Hundred Rohrbach Immigrants To America 1820-1900 Including The Families Of Rohrbach, Paul Anthon Nielson

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Over two-thirds of this volume is devoted to the genealogies of the nine Rohrbach immigrants who have been identified as having come to America between 1709 and 1754, i.e., Christian Rohrbach, 1709; Johannes Rohrbach, 1709; Hans Georg Rorbach, 1732 Christian Rohrbach , 1739; Christian Rohrbach , 1743; Johann Reinhart Rohrbach, 1749; Johannes Rohrbach, 1750; Christian Rohrbach , 1753; and Peter Rohrbach, 1754.