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The Evolution Of A Scholar And His School Of Research: "The Wisconsin Limnology Community - The Hasler Period", Frank N. Egerton
The Evolution Of A Scholar And His School Of Research: "The Wisconsin Limnology Community - The Hasler Period", Frank N. Egerton
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Arthur D. Hasler was born at Lehi, Utah, on January 5, 1908. No one who knows him doubts his own strong conviction that his pioneering Mormon background provided him with ethical and intellectual values that contributed substantially to his successful career. His boyhood interests were in fishing, raising livestock, camping, nature study, and the Boy Scouts. These interests did not lead him inevitably into limnology, however. While an undergraduate at Brigham Young University he seriously considered following his father's example in becoming a physician and was only deflected from that by the financial constraints of the Depression and an ill …
From Switzerland To Utah: Arthur D. Hasler's Grandparents
From Switzerland To Utah: Arthur D. Hasler's Grandparents
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The autobiographies of Louise Thalmann Hasler and Johannes Hasler from their grandson, Arthur D. Hasler, a professor at the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin. Also included is a note on John Hasler from Henry A. Dean regarding Hasler's activities in Sanpete County as the music instructor and director of the Manti Tabernacle Choir.
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This Newsletter is devoted to reviews of recent titles that are of Swiss American interest. Various SAHS members - among them Emile-Henri Bovay, Rudolf Ganz, Erdmann Schmocker, and especially Ruth Jewett - have brought various titles to the editor's attention which is gratefully acknowledged. He invites others to follow their example. He also thanks the contributors to this issue, especially Dr. Ernest Menolfi of the Holbein Gymnasium in Basel, Switzerland, for their valuable contributions.
Book Review: History Of Switzerland. The First Hundred Thousand Years: Before The Beginnings To The Days Of The Present, Lukas Burckhardt, Ernest Menolfi
Book Review: History Of Switzerland. The First Hundred Thousand Years: Before The Beginnings To The Days Of The Present, Lukas Burckhardt, Ernest Menolfi
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Includes two sections:
1. Homage to a fervent friend of Switzerland, J. Murray Luck
In my job as Swiss cultural attache in the United States I had the chance to get help and inspiration- from Americans who were in love with our country and who acted as our good will ambassadors. Quite sincerely aware of our own shortcomings, I had some difficulties in understanding their unswerving belief in our exemplary qualities. Finally, I had to admit that there must be a deeper reason behind this strange phenomenon. Maybe we really have, as a sober small state, a political mission in …
Book Review: Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi
Book Review: Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This collection of papers given at a London symposium in March 1984 is in several respects a supplementary companion to H. M. Waidson's Anthology of Modern Swiss Literature (1984). They have the same cover picture - showing the distribution of the four national languages in Switzerland - and together they convey a rather comprehensive idea of what current Swiss literature is. Whereas Waidson's display of the literary production of the last decades is to some extent a neutral view from a distance, this collection of essays adds some more Swiss points of view, mentions further authors, and is by nature …
Hanne Ravnholt: Pioneer Wisconsin Buttermaker, Reimert T. Ravenholt
Hanne Ravnholt: Pioneer Wisconsin Buttermaker, Reimert T. Ravenholt
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The historical marker placed along Highway 35 near Luck, Wisconsin, commemorating the founding of Wisconsin's first cooperative creamery-the Luck Creamery Company-on the north shore of nearby Little Butternut Lake, West Denmark, notes that "the first Buttermaker was a Danish woman who made butter in large wooden churns." A brief history of this pioneering Danish woman was provided by her son, Ansgar Ravnholt, a few years before his death in 1964.1 This author, a grandson, has contributed additional details from more recently discovered records.
Danish Methodists In America, Arlow W. Andersen
Danish Methodists In America, Arlow W. Andersen
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The separate histories of foreign-language missions present a special challenge to students of American church history. Descendants of the immigrants, more and more of mixed ancestry, lack the ability to read and translate material published in the language of their forebears. To make matters more difficult, the children and grandchildren of the pioneers often shun the tedious work of research and writing. Their handicaps apply to the offspring of all foreignspeaking peoples in America. Of the nineteenth-century immigrants, the Danes come to mind.
Laurs Christian Laursen, Betty Laursen Miller
Laurs Christian Laursen, Betty Laursen Miller
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When my younger brother and I were little, our mother often sang to us, and soon our voices would be joining in with "Venter Paa Far"--Waiting for Father. This song is about two little blueeyed children who press their ' noses against the window pane as they eagerly await their father's homecoming. It ends with a happy rush to the door when they hear him approaching, and the words change to a joyous shout of "Her Kommer Far"--Here Comes our Father.
Children Of Danish Roots, L.C. Laursen
Children Of Danish Roots, L.C. Laursen
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Children of Danish Roots is a translation by Willard R. Garred of Stammens B0rn, an article that appeared originally in the 1931 issue of the "Ryslinge Julebog," a Christmas magazine of the Ryslinge Folk High School, Ryslinge, Denmark. The article was written by L. C. Laursen when he lived in the western Nebraska community at Mirage Flats near Hay Springs. After his arrival in the community he named it Ryslinge, a name generally accepted by the settlers and their friends.
Danebod Fall Meeting, Elsie S. Hansen
Danebod Fall Meeting, Elsie S. Hansen
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In 1943 when Enok Mortensen and his family arrived in Tyler, Minnesota, to begin his pastorate at Danebod Lutheran Church, they were greeted by a severe blizzard which prevented them from moving into the parsonage for several days. The parsonage, located across from the church, had been redecorated, cleaned, insulated and made ready for their occupancy and soon they were comfortably ensconced. This was to be their home for almost 18 years.
Enok Mortensen And Askov, Hans Henningsen
Enok Mortensen And Askov, Hans Henningsen
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The connection between Enok Mortensen and Askov Folk High School in Denmark came about accidentally, as it were, in the middle of the 1950s. The background was that rector Knud Hansen made some critical remarks, in an interview, about the United States and American foreign policy. This caused a great to-do in the press, so much so that the American ambassador decided to visit Askov Folk High School to judge for himself whether it were possible that Askov had "gone communist." Shortly thereafter Knud Hansen received an official invitation to spend three months in the United States. The visit, which …
Enok Mortensen As A Danish-American, Erling Duus
Enok Mortensen As A Danish-American, Erling Duus
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Many years ago, Enok Mortensen wrote about the impact of the first singing of Kristian 0stergaard' s "Bag B0lgende Have" 1at a meeting at Nysted Folk School. For the first time, Danish-Americans had a song which moved beyond nostalgia to affirmation. It filled a need which had become powerful. It gave expression to the fact that the kind of rich cultural and spiritually generative Danishness which came to flower in the Grundtvigian movement had become implanted in the spaciousness of the plains and the prairies, and was transformed in this liberating new environment. This article 2 was characteristic of the …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This SAHS Newsletter is devoted to Hans and Christa Lang, longstanding members of the SAHS and, through their professional pursuits, deeply involved with the past and present pre-white world of the United States.
The Publications Of Hans Lang
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The publications of Hans Lang from 1969 through 1985 including both books and articles.
The American Indian Museum Of The City Of Zurich, Or: From The Everyday Life Of Two Museum Curators, Hans Lang
The American Indian Museum Of The City Of Zurich, Or: From The Everyday Life Of Two Museum Curators, Hans Lang
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Since his retirement from the Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich in 1984, Hans Lang has devoted all his time to the American Indian Museum of the City of Zurich, the only such institution in Western Europe. It grew out of the initiative and the tireless collecting efforts of Gottfried and Martha Hotz. Already in his early youth, reading had awakened in G. Hotz a lively interest in the indigenous peoples of North America. When he was only sixteen, he purchased the first item, a simple knife, for his today widely known collection. Later he invested every penny he …
On The Trail Of Swiss Painters Among American Indians, Hans Lang
On The Trail Of Swiss Painters Among American Indians, Hans Lang
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The discovery of America by Europeans opened a new field of interest for numerous European artists occupying themselves with the new continent and its native population. Some even set out with pencil and paint brush to portray on the spot that queer and picturesque world, not the least outstanding of them being Swiss.
Der Lndianer In Der Europaischen Musik - Ausgewahlte Beispiele, Hans Lang
Der Lndianer In Der Europaischen Musik - Ausgewahlte Beispiele, Hans Lang
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The great event of the discovery of the New World with its strange, exotic peoples was reflected not only in European literature and art, but also in all areas of music. Especially in the field of music, there are still a number of unexplained phenomena in this context, such as the chaconne, which appeared in Spain soon after the discovery of America. In 1517, the Spanish poet Torres Naharro first mentioned the "chacona" as a peasant dance song. We still don't know how this dance developed or where it came from, but even then, its possible American (Mexican) origins were …
The Unusual American Career Of The Swiss Politician Emily Frey (1838-1922), Hans R. Guggisberg
The Unusual American Career Of The Swiss Politician Emily Frey (1838-1922), Hans R. Guggisberg
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The title of this paper may arouse the expectation that we will concern ourselves mainly with a number of adventurous anecdotes from the biography of a prominent Swiss politician of the late 19th and early 20th century. I do not want to disappoint such expectations altogether. I shall indeed relate several episodes from Emil Frey's life which appear to be worth relating because they are not only quite unusual but - at least to my knowledge - also very little known. Frey's biography is linked to the history of Switzerland and Basel on the one hand, and quite particularly to …