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Albert Gallatin, The Man Of Peace, William D. Carter Iii
Albert Gallatin, The Man Of Peace, William D. Carter Iii
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
On July 15, 1780, a nineteen-year old graduate of the Academy of Geneva, after forty-nine days voyage on the American vessel Kitty, put ashore at Cape Anne, Massachusetts, and on a borrowed horse rode twenty-six miles to Boston. Thus began the fortunes in the New World of Albert Gallatin who, until his death at 89 years, was to make an outstanding contribution to the life of his adopted country. Thanks to the systematic organization of his correspondence, now available in the New York Historical Society, and the dissemination of microfilms of this correspondence made possible by New York University, it …
Jakob Bosshart (1862-1924), Regula A. Meier
Jakob Bosshart (1862-1924), Regula A. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Bosshart, Jakob (1862-1924), Swiss novelist, short-story writer, and poet, was born in a lonely farm in Stürzikon near Zurich. He trained at a teachers college and later studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Paris, and Zurich, earning a Ph.D. degree at Zurich. An able educator, Bosshart served as rector of the cantonal gymnasium in Zurich for 17 years. Ill · health forced him to resign, and he subsequently moved to Clavadel, where he worked at his writing and fought a losing battle against tuberculosis.
Albert Gallatin, 176101849, A Genevan In The American Enlightenment: An Essay In Interpretation, Leo Schelbert
Albert Gallatin, 176101849, A Genevan In The American Enlightenment: An Essay In Interpretation, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Albert Gallatin has been called "America's Forgotten Statesman."1 A review of scholarly and public endeavors shows, however, that he has received serious attention, especially in recent decades. Best known is, perhaps, the excellent biography by Raymond Walters Jr. of 1957, a concise, learned, and balanced portrait.2 In 1958 Rutgers University Press published Alexander Balinky's Albert Gallatin Fiscal Theories and Policies, a comprehensive study. Although Balinky profoundly misunderstood .Gallatin in favor of Hamiltonian programs, he offered nevertheless a scholarly treatise to be reckoned with.3 In 1963 Gayle Thornbrough edited the Correspondence of John Badollet and Albert Gallatin …
Max Frisch (1911), Rolf Kieser
Max Frisch (1911), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Frisch, Max (1911-), Swiss novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist, was born in Zurich. Frisch studied architecture and was a successful architect for several years before he decided in 1954 to devote all his time to writing.
Jacques Chessex (1934), Ursula Schoeni
Jacques Chessex (1934), Ursula Schoeni
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Chessex's work is largely autobiographical, replete with the theme of the defiance of death, marked by contradictions, and boldly stressing immoderate and violent feelings, and yet his language is almost classical in its restraint. In 1963 Chessex was awarded the Schiller Prize and in 1973 the Goncourt Prize.
Robert Otto Walser (1878-1956), Herbert L. Kaufman
Robert Otto Walser (1878-1956), Herbert L. Kaufman
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Walser, Robert Otto (1878-1956), Swiss feuilletonist novelist, and short-story writer, was born in Biel, canton Bern, the seventh of eight children. He left school at the age of 14 and worked for most of his life as a clerk in such places as Zurich, Wädenswil, Thun, Solothurn, Basel, and Stuttgart. After Walser's first book, Fritz Kochers Aufsätze (1904; Fritz Kocher's Essays) was published, he lived for some years with his brother Karl in Berlin.
Emil Staiger (1908), Marianne Burkhard
Emil Staiger (1908), Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Staiger, Emil (1908-), Swiss literary critic and translator was born in Kreuzlingen, canton Thurgau. For many years he was professor of German literature at the University of Zurich. Staiger gave new impulses to German literary criticism through comprehensive interpretations of individual works and a theoretical consideration of literature in connection with the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
Jakob Schaffner (1875-1944), Hans Bänziger
Jakob Schaffner (1875-1944), Hans Bänziger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Schaffner, Jakob (1875-1944), Swiss novelist and political essayist, was born in Basel and orphaned at an early age. A distressing picture of his childhood and the years he spent in "Demutt" (Beuggen), a religiously oriented orphanage near Basel, can be found in his most famous novel, Johannes (1922). This novel has been praised as the best Swiss educational novel since Gottfried Keller's Der grüne Heinrich, and for it Schaffner won the 1930 Swiss Schiller Prize. Schaffner. eventually became a shoemaker. He described his experiences as an apprentice in Basel in the novel Die Jünglingszeit des Johannes Schattenhold (1930; The …
Jürg Federspiel (1931), Rolf Kieser
Jürg Federspiel (1931), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Federspiel, Jürg (1931-), Swiss novelist, poet, and short-story writer, was born in Winterthur, Zurich canton. His first book is a collection of short stories entitled Orangen und Tode (1961; Oranges and Deaths). This title signals the author's obsession with the principles of life and death, which, in his work, frequently take the form of an ardent, often violent dialogue between them. "I am a sensuous man," he maintains. "If there are no oranges anymore, I am for death. Mine."
Albert Béguin (1901-1957), Suzanne Nalbantian
Albert Béguin (1901-1957), Suzanne Nalbantian
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Béguin, Albert (1901-57), Swiss critic, translator, and editor, was born into a family of agnostic educators in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Neuchâtel canton. In his formative years, Béguin was attracted to the nonorthodox spiritual quality of such Catholic writers as Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Although Béguin eventually became a socialist dedicated to humanitarian concerns, his critical works usually emphasize the mystical aspects of literature. Béguin received his license in literature at the University of Geneva, and in 1925 he moved to Paris, where he was exposed to the ideological ferment of the era but was personally unable to adopt …
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Rolf Kieser
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich (1921-), Swiss playwright, novelist, and essayist, was born in Konolfingen, canton Bern. He is Switzerland's most important playwright and one of the most accomplished dramatists in the succession of Bertolt Brecht. A student of philosophy and theology, Dürrenmatt experimented with short stories reminiscent of Franz Kafka. In 1947 he created his first theater scandal with the chaotic drama Es steht geschrieben (It Is Written), a combination of street ballad and religious comic strip. After the failure of Der Blinde (1948; The Blind Man), an allegorical drama in which the struggle between nihilism and faith ends with the victory …
Giuseppe Zoppi (1896-1952), Hermann W. Haller
Giuseppe Zoppi (1896-1952), Hermann W. Haller
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Zoppi, Giuseppe (1896-1952), Swiss poet, short-story writer, novelist, and essayist, was born in Broglio, canton Ticino. Zoppi left his beloved mountains at the age of 11 to enter a religious school near Ascona. He later studied at the University of Fribourg, graduating in 1920 with a thesis on the poetry of Francesco Chiesa. After teaching at gymnasiums in places such as Sankt Gallen, Lugano, and Locarno, Zoppi became professor of Italian literature at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1931.
Peter Lassen: Danish Pioneer Of California, Franklin D. Scott
Peter Lassen: Danish Pioneer Of California, Franklin D. Scott
The Bridge
"The Dane Peter Lassen," or " Peter Lassen, a Danish Blacksmith," appears in almost every memoir dealing with early northern California. His Danishness was obvious, though no one bothers to explain why. Was his speech the telltale feature? The man was almost thirty years of age when he left Denmark, and he had had no opportunity to learn English while his tongue was ductile. He came to California in the spring of 1840, at the beginning of a decade of decision. At that moment Indians inhabited the land, Russians were still established on the California coast, Mexicans held title to …
Language Transition And Danish Children's Schools In The U.S., Ejnar Farstrup
Language Transition And Danish Children's Schools In The U.S., Ejnar Farstrup
The Bridge
Very few Danish immigrants who came to the United States just prior to and immediately following the beginning of the Twentieth Century were acquainted with the English language. Immigrants of every ethnic group have countless tales, some comic and some rather serious, of the difficulties which befell them. Years after their arrival, most of them could regale themselve at length with stories of misinterpretations and the blending of language from their own experiences. A good sense of humor carried most of them through. Others succumbed to a nostalgia which drove them back to the homeland. Still others, who might have …
Life On Lilac Hill Sketches Of Karen And Chresten Pedersen's Prairie Years, Karen M. Kadgihn
Life On Lilac Hill Sketches Of Karen And Chresten Pedersen's Prairie Years, Karen M. Kadgihn
The Bridge
A jackrabbit was sunning himself on a rock in the warm March sun, stretched out and went to sleep. Suddenly a noise awakened him and he jumped quickly away at right angles to where the noise had originated. From a safe distance he stopped, sat up to see what had disturbed his siesta, wiggling his ears and nose as he watched another of those strange creatures going by his sunning rock. What were they? They had been passing in increasing numbers, and had actually made parallel tracks right by his rock!
Kierkegaard Who Actually Emigrated To America, Carl Woltzer
Kierkegaard Who Actually Emigrated To America, Carl Woltzer
The Bridge
Niels Andreas Kierkegaard, born April 13, 1809, was apparently destined by his father, a merchant in Copenhagen, to take over the family business. His two brothers were top students in the University-bound curriculum, but Niels was steered into business. Dissatisfaction with the course his life was taking and frustration with parental pressure led him in 1832 to seek advance payment on his inheritance and to emigrate to America, where he by no means lived the life of a prodigal son . In letters to his family, the first one from Providence, Rhode Island, and dated January 8, 1833, he told …
A Sampler, Carl Hansen
A Sampler, Carl Hansen
The Bridge
Note: Seventy years after his death the Danish-born writer Carl Hansen (1860-1916) remains, among those who read Danish, a highly valued interpreter of the immigrant experience in the United States. Hansen was the subject of two articles in earlier issue (Vol. 2:1, 1979) of The Bridge. His short stories and one novel are together a landmark in the American literature written in Danish , but the books have become inaccessible to many and, as to language, closed to a large audience who would appreciate his ability to sketch Danish-American personalities and lives. In Tyler, Minnesota, where he lived until 1910, …
"Bring . .. The Books." Notes On The Danish Lutheran Publishing House, 1877-1963, Mark Friis-Hansen
"Bring . .. The Books." Notes On The Danish Lutheran Publishing House, 1877-1963, Mark Friis-Hansen
The Bridge
"The mental alertness and spiritual hunger of the Apostle Paul shine through the words of his request to his young friend Timothy. The business of our Danish Lutheran Publishing House is founded on that, and on our Lord 's command to His Church to bring the Gospel to every nation . . . Its business is not to make money, but to do the printing of the Church. Its success or failure is to be measured not by the figures in its "profits" or "losses" columns, but in the volume or extent of its distribution of Christian books and other …
The Danish Dip, Edna H. Hong
The Danish Dip, Edna H. Hong
The Bridge
My first reaction to our son's Danish school teacher was one of dismay, for I was still under the dismal domination of the American veneration of youthiness. Somehow the keen, kind blue eyes and the lean, lithe body of the grey-haired gentleman who rose at his elevated desk to greet me when I entered the school room, accompanied by my wretched, reluctant, rebellious, ready-to-bolt nine year old, did not tranquilize the depressing discovery that the teacher Theodore was to have his first year in a foreign school was an old man - at least sixty!
A Short History Of The Life Of N. J. Blagen
A Short History Of The Life Of N. J. Blagen
The Bridge
In 1920 the Danish immigrant Niels Jensen Blagen looked back on his long, vigorous life, fifty years of which had been spent in the United States, and composed the autobiographical sketch which follows . Perhaps it was characteristic of N. J. Blagen that, as a man of action, he did not spend more time than he did recounting his remarkable career as a builder and lumberman in the Pacific Northwest. In an English that sometimes betrays through unusual phrasing the writer's foreign origin, Blagen takes the reader from 1850 and Rabylille on the island of M0n to 1920 and Portland, …
The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Udvandrerarkiv, Aalborg, Inger Bladt
The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Udvandrerarkiv, Aalborg, Inger Bladt
The Bridge
On July 3, 1982, Det Danske Udvandrerarkiv in Aalborg will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary and look back on an existence marked by great difficulties. During critical times, in fact, its continued existence often seemed in doubt.
Review: Commission Nationale Pour La Publication De Documents Diplomatiques Suisses, Documents Diplomatiques Suisses 1848-1945, Volume. 7 (1918-1920), Part 1 (November 11, 1918 To June 28, 1919). Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1979. Lxxviii And 964 Pp., Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This is the first in a projected series of sixteen volumes of documents designed to illuminate the diplomatic history of Switzerland from the founding of the modern Swiss state in 1848 to the end of World War II, a scholarly enterprise of major proportions. The apparatus behind the enterprise is an elaborate and intricate one. A National Commission for the Publication of Swiss Diplomatic Documents (DDS), under the presidency of Jacques Freymond from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, comprising historians from every university of the country and representatives of the Swiss .Federal Archives, the Federal Department of …
In Memoriam Corinne Honegger-Baumann, Marianne Burkhard
In Memoriam Corinne Honegger-Baumann, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
At the age of 85, Corinne Honegger-Baumann died on March 14, 1981, in her home near Rapperswil/Switzerland. Though she had returned permanently from New York to Switzerland about ten years ago, she nevertheless continued to follow the activities of the SAHS, of which she was a life member, with keen interest. For decades, Mrs. Honegger resided with her husband, a successful Swiss businessman, in New York. It was during World War II, which wrought so many horrors upon innocent children, that she decided to become active in humanitarian concerns. In 1942, upon Mrs. Honegger's inspiration, H.C. Honegger established the Pestalozzi …