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Full-Text Articles in European Languages and Societies
The Danish Immigrant, Signe Nielsen Betsinger
The Danish Immigrant, Signe Nielsen Betsinger
The Bridge
In 1979 I had the opportunity to travel with a group to China where I had the good fortune to visit Tachai, a model agricultural commune. Up until the mid-1940s, generations of the inhabitants in this area had been impoverished. They had lived in caves in hills. Their crops had been destroyed over and over by drought, flooding, insects, and hailstorms. In 1945 land reform was insituted and the peasants set up the first mutual aid team in China. By 1953 they had a ten-year plan for reclaiming the land and building new homes. Just when the plan was finished …
Axel Pedersen - Timber Engineer, Olga Strandvold Opfell
Axel Pedersen - Timber Engineer, Olga Strandvold Opfell
The Bridge
H. C. 0rsted (1777-1851), the world-famous discoverer of electromagnetism, had a deep understanding of the close connection between science and technology. As director of the Polytechnical College (later named the Technical University of Denmark), he inspired a succession of technical discoveries, inventions, and industries. Since his day Danish engineers have been known for their training, ingenuity, and rigorous standards. Those who have come to the United States have invariably demonstrated the superiority of their methods. The story of one such Danish-American engineer follows.
Danish-American Literature In Transition, Dorothy Burton Skardal
Danish-American Literature In Transition, Dorothy Burton Skardal
The Bridge
Danish-American literature was written by Danish immigrants in the United States mainly about and for members of their own group. Their lives were lived in constant psychological and cultural flux undergoing the pressures of assimilation; therefore their literature both grew out of and recorded multifaceted processes of transition. Today the literature Danish immigrants wrote is itself in transition: long unread or forgotten, it is now being rediscovered by Americans of Danish heritage. This brief introduction to the main Danish-American writers is meant to stimulate still more to reclaim their heritage preserved in Danish-language fiction and poetry.
Christmas Letter To My Daughter In Denmark, Cynthia Norris Graae
Christmas Letter To My Daughter In Denmark, Cynthia Norris Graae
The Bridge
Twenty years ago, when I was a student (from the USA) at Someroille College, Oxford, a Danish student at Someroille invited me to her home for Christmas. My father had visited Denmark when he was fifteen, and the next year was a host to a Danish student at his home in Portland, Maine. I'd grown up with stories about his trip and his Danish guest, and I gladly accepted this invitation. Recently, my fifteen year old daugh- r ter spent a school year in Denmark. She lived with a family and studied at a Danish-speaking school, although she spoke almost …
Über Goethes "Classiker Und Romantiker In Italien [...]", Ilona Klein
Über Goethes "Classiker Und Romantiker In Italien [...]", Ilona Klein
Faculty Publications
Der zweite, 1820 veröffentlichte Band von "Über Kunst und Alterthum" enthielt einen Artikel Goethes, dessen ersten Teil er bereits zwei Jahre zuvor verfaßt hatte. Der Aufsatz mit dem Titel "Klassiker und Romantiker in Italien, sich heftig bekämpfend" sollte die literarische Szene Italiens im zweiten Jahrzehnt des 19. Jahrhunderts beschreiben. Der zweite Satz des Artikels lautet folgendermaßen: Das Publicum theilt sich in zwei Parteien, sie stehen schlagfertig gegen einander, und wenn wir Deutschen uns ganz geruhig des Adjectivum romantisch bei Gelegenheit bedienen, so werden dort durch die Ausdrücke Romanticismus und Kriticismus zwei unversöhnliche Seiten bezeichnet.
The Story Of Emilie Joss-Bigler, Ruth Harbecke Jewett
The Story Of Emilie Joss-Bigler, Ruth Harbecke Jewett
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The story of Emilie Bigler Joss begins not in America, but in Switzerland. It was in the year 1848 that her parents, Christian and Elizabeth Bigler, left their homeland for America.
Booknotes, Leo Schelbert
Booknotes, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
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Book Review: Conflict And Compromise In Multilingual Societies, Heinz K. Meier
Book Review: Conflict And Compromise In Multilingual Societies, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Kenneth D. McRae, professor of political science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, has spent much of his academic career studying Swiss multilingualism and multiculturalism. In the course of his endeavors he has become an expert on the topic, as is reflected in the books and articles he has published on it, best known among them Switzerland: Example of Cultural Coexistence (1964). Since Canada is itself a linguistically and culturally divided country, Dr. McRae's work on Switzerland assumed a wider significance, inasmuch as it lent itself as a basis for comparison and, perhaps, instruction, especially in his function as a research …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert, Heinz K. Meier
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
"Grandmother Joss consented, one evening in 1943, to tell me the story of her earlier years," explains her granddaughter Ruth Harbecke Jewett in the Preface to The Swiss Connection, The Lives and Times of Frederick Joss and Emily Bigler Joss and Their Descendants. (Chicago: Privately printed, 1983), 116 pp. Over forty years ago Ms. Jewett had taken copious notes of those conversations, but then forgotten them; when she rediscovered her notes some years ago, Ms. Jewett decided to use them as the core for a loving portrait of six generations of the Joss-Bigler family. Ms. Jewett has given gracious permission …
Tradition And Individualism: Hans Banziger's Books On Swiss And German Literature, Marianne Burkhard
Tradition And Individualism: Hans Banziger's Books On Swiss And German Literature, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Over the years, I have seen Hans Banziger here and there, on both sides of the Atlantic. His slender figure would appear in the midst of people crowding lecture rooms at meetings of the Modern Language Association in New York or Chicago, his smile would suddenly greet me, in the summer, at the library in Zurich, and whenever possible he would attend the annual meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society, an intent listener often adding thoughtful comments or questions. Rather short in stature, his grey hair closely cropped, he has always been, for me, an example of the "Swiss" …
My Life, Hans Banziger
My Life, Hans Banziger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
One of my very young students having gotten once the task to write on his short lifetime introduced his witty essay with the remark that curricula vitae reminded him always of necrologies. He went on, using the fiction of a minister's sermon, to describe his career: "A promising young life came abruptly to an end; Karl X had wanted to become a teacher, but his grades were not good enough ... ". Thus, you might understand, why I myself hesitated a little when Marianne Burkhard asked me to write about my life. Memoirs always sound a little bit sad. But …
The Publications Of Hans Banziger
The Publications Of Hans Banziger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The publications of Hans Banziger including books, articles in scholarly publications, articles in newspapers, and biographical entries on H. Banziger.
Preface, Marianne Burkhard
Preface, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The present issue of the SAHS Newsletter is devoted to Hans Banziger, Professor emeritus of German Literature at Bryn Mawr College. This continues a loose series of articles about Swiss- Americans, about their lives and their contributions to the profession.
Here And There - Remarks On Daily Life, Hans Banziger, Marianne Burkhard
Here And There - Remarks On Daily Life, Hans Banziger, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Banziger's book College-Erinnerungen is a collection of short pieces written between 1967 and 1979 and published first in the periodical Schweizer Monatshefte. Here he describes and comments on a wide variety of phenomena he encountered in his daily life at Bryn Mawr. There are notes about nature and academic procedures, about political events and difficulties with language, about schools and churches. The thread connecting all these details of the old and the new country is a keen interest in human behavior and its inherent attitudes as well as the attempt to show that reality will always surpass our images and …
Book Review: The Essence Of Swissness: A Special Issue Of The Times Literary Supplement, Leo Schelbert
Book Review: The Essence Of Swissness: A Special Issue Of The Times Literary Supplement, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Friday, December 7, 1984, issue of the London Times Literary Supplement was devoted in good part to works about Switzerland and its unique literary and historical traditions. It opens with a challenging essay by George Steiner who raises the question "What is Swiss?" "The Writer may speak against the grain," he cautions, "even when he bears close witness. Ten years are, as I have found, too short a time in which to get to know the palimpsest of Genevan society, let alone those of Switzerland." Yet he offers courageously and with much insight his "impressions as to the nature …
Book Review: Des Suisses Pas Comme Les Autres Et Au Bout De La Terre, Marianne Burkhard
Book Review: Des Suisses Pas Comme Les Autres Et Au Bout De La Terre, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
For several months, five French-Swiss journalists travelled in other continents to meet and interview Swiss emigrants, to see how they lived and to explore their views on Switzerland and their emigration. Deliberately, the reporters chose countries far away from Europe, i.e. the United States, the Republic of South Africa, Singapore, Brazil, Argentina, and Australia. As their enterprise was not designed to be either scholarly or encyclopedic, the authors interweave impressions and information, historical facts and personal anecdotes. The result is a book that is fascinating to read as it offers vivid descriptions of places "au bout de la terre" and …
Swiss Mercenaries In The Service Of The British Crown: The War Of 1812, Ivor C.E. Luethy
Swiss Mercenaries In The Service Of The British Crown: The War Of 1812, Ivor C.E. Luethy
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
During the War of 1812, Swiss mercenaries were part of the British army which fought against the American forces. The most important figure among these soldiers in the service of the British Crown was undoubtedly Sir George Prevost, Governor-General and military commander of British North America from 1811-1815. He was a descendant of a prominent Geneva family, several members of which had attained high ranks in the British forces; Augustin Prevost, for example, Sir George's father became Major-General under General Wolfe. Augustin Prevost had also been a friend of Frederick Haldimand, Governor-General of Canada during the American Revolution.
Minutes Of The Twenty-First Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Arnold H. Price
Minutes Of The Twenty-First Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Arnold H. Price
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The twenty-first annual meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society was held at the headquarters of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 1984.
Book Review: One Small Lifetime, Leo Schelbert
Book Review: One Small Lifetime, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
To do justice to this moving memoir is less than easy. It presents the story of two intertwined lives, that of Amalia Thurkauf-Braun who was born in the 1880s and that of her son Ernst Albert, born in 1907 at Liestal, the capital of Canton Basel-Land, in Switzerland. The lives of Ernst's father Emil Thurkauf, in contrast, and of Ernst 's three siblings come only occasionally into view from the perspective of Amalia Thurkauf's reports or of her son's autobiographical reminiscences. Both records are touching documents that tell of unusual endurance, of sincere faith, and of incredible capacity for work. …