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Letter To The Editor, Nicklaus R. Schweizer
Letter To The Editor, Nicklaus R. Schweizer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In the November 1982 issue of the SAHS Newsletter {XVIII, 3, 26-29) Professor Leo Schelbert wrote a detailed review of my book Hawai'i und die deutschsprachigen Völker (Bern: Peter Lang 1982). While I found myself in agreement with him on most issues, there are two points in his critique which merit a closer look, however.
Review: Ronald G. Fick, Ed., 'San Francisco Is No More': The Letters Of Antoine Borel, Jr., 1905-1906. San Mateo, California: Wilmac Press, 1963, 32 Pp., Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Although not a recent publication, this rare and little known work deserves to be featured. Some time ago the Arthur H. Clark Company offered Number 18 of the 200 printed copies for sale; the little book is beautifully crafted, signed by the printer J. Wilson McKenney, and reproduces on the front cover a letter in facsimile that was written by Borel on Tuesday, April 24, 1906, right after the devastating earthquake. The work contains a photograph of Antoine Borel, Jr. (1879-1958), an elevenpage, carefully annotated introduction, six letters of Borel to his parents who were at that time in Europe, …
Review: Randall M. Miller, Ed., 'A Warm & Zealous Spirit': John J. Zubly And The American Revolution, A Selection Of His Writings. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1982. Xii, 211 Pp., Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This edition of the religio-political writings of Johann Joachim Zublin (1724-1781) is a valuable and welcome addition to Swiss Americana. John J. Zubly, as he came to be known in the American colonies, had grown up in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he studied for the ministry. He was ordained in the German Reformed Church of London in 1744 and then moved to South Carolina. His writings which were published after 1760 touch upon vital questions of the years 1760 to 1780, years that saw the transformation of the thirteen continental North American British colonies into a nascent league of states …
I. Letter From The Editors, Heinz K. Meier, Leo Schelbert
I. Letter From The Editors, Heinz K. Meier, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
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Iii. Pioneer Winemaker Of The West: John James Dufour Of Switzerland, Kentucky, And Indiana, Stuart Seely Sprague
Iii. Pioneer Winemaker Of The West: John James Dufour Of Switzerland, Kentucky, And Indiana, Stuart Seely Sprague
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Bibliophiles and Indiana history buffs alike are apt to have heard of John James Dufour. The story of the man who established vineyards at Vevay, for years the site of an annual wine festival, and who wrote the classic and rare The American Vine-dresser's Guide (Cincinnati: S. J. Browne, 1826) is an interesting one and one that deserves more attention. His book is the second oldest published in the United States dealing with the wine industry.1 The volume is important to students of early Indiana and Kentucky due to Dufour's personal accounts of his trials and tribulations in Jessamine …
Ii. Michael Schlatter: A Man In Between: A Contribution To American Ecclesiastical And Secular History Of The Eighteenth Century, Marthi Pritzker-Ehrlich
Ii. Michael Schlatter: A Man In Between: A Contribution To American Ecclesiastical And Secular History Of The Eighteenth Century, Marthi Pritzker-Ehrlich
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This biographical sketch of Michael Schlatter (1716-1790) presents a summary view on the basis of a doctoral dissertation which dealt mainly with his activities in Pennsylvania as commissioner of the Dutch-Reformed Church. Reverend Schlatter had moved to Pennsylvania at a time when thousands of Swiss and Germans were arriving in that North American province; as a Reformed minister, however, he belonged to a privileged elite among immigrants. He is a remarkable personality in eighteenth century American history because of his involvement in three areas.
Letter From The Editors, Heinz K. Meier, Leo Schelbert
Letter From The Editors, Heinz K. Meier, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
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Swiss American Newsnotes, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Newsnotes, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Leo Schelbert has published the following recent articles: "Von der geistlichen Welt des Pfälzer Predigers Johann Peter Müller (1709-1796) ," in: Pfälzer - Palatines. Beiträge zur pfälzischen Ein- und Auswanderung ... Herausgegeben von Karl Scherer. (Kaiserslautern: Heimatstelle Pfalz, 1981), pp. 215-228. "On Interpreting Immigrant Letters: The Case of Johann Caspar and Wilhelmina Honegger-Hanhart," German American Yearbook 17 (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1982), pp. 141-152. "Swiss Migration to the Territory of the United States: A Historiographical Introduction," The Immigration History Newsletter 14 (1982): 1-5.
Iv. Fond Memories Of Christmas At Home, Agnes F. Hostettler
Iv. Fond Memories Of Christmas At Home, Agnes F. Hostettler
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Dr. Agnes Hostettler, a member of our society, is professor of German at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. This article is reprinted by permission from Gardens for All, V, No. 12 (December 1982), 180 Flynn Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401.
Iii. Switzerland And The Era, Hanna Widrig
Iii. Switzerland And The Era, Hanna Widrig
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A little over a year ago the Swiss voters surprised the world with the acceptance of a referendum that added an equal rights amendment to the Swiss Federal Constitution. Is there an explanation for this sudden change of the rather conservative Swiss heart? Why was it that the Swiss equal rights amendment passed within the short span of ten years after Swiss women got the right to vote, when American women who have been enfranchised since 1921 were unsuccessful in the same pursuit? What was the Swiss strategy for this outcome, and what has been done in the past year …
Ii. Karl Herzog, The Historian As Activist: An Episode From The Time Of The Sonderbund, Sabine Jessner
Ii. Karl Herzog, The Historian As Activist: An Episode From The Time Of The Sonderbund, Sabine Jessner
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Swiss historian Karl Herzog was one of the innumerable middle-class intellectuals who exercised an influential role on European liberal politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. Many scholars have analyzed the participation of the bourgeoisie in political life, and they reach novel definitions concerning membership of this intellectual group within the middle class. Historians such as Robert R. Palmer, Alfred Cobban, L.C.B. Seaman and Lenore O'Boyle have devoted particular attention to this concern. For example, the British historian Seaman has cautioned his readers to substitute the expression "professional classes" or "liberal professions" wherever he encounters the word, …
Otto F. Walter (1928), Regula A. Meier
Otto F. Walter (1928), Regula A. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Walter, Otto F. (1928-), Swiss novelist and playwright, was born in Rickenbach near Olten, canton Solothurn. After graduating from the gymnasium, he served as an apprentice to a bookseller and worked for a printing office in Cologne. In 1956 he took charge of the literary program of the Walter publishing house in Olten. Eleven years later, in 1967, he joined the firm of Luchterhand in Darmstadt in the same capacity.
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 …
Swiss Literature, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss Literature, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Switzerland has a rich literary tradition. In modern times both the German- and the French-speaking regions have produced important writers who left distinctive marks on the literature and culture of their time. The 18th century was a time of literary florescence in Switzerland. Important writers of that period include the Bernese patrician Albrecht von Haller (1708-77), whose long poem Die Alpen (1729; The Alps) extols the beauty and grandeur of nature; Johann Jokob Bodmer (1698-1783) and Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701-66) of Zurich, who helped free German literature from the confines of rigid rules; Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712- 78), "citizen of Geneva," …
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 …
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947), Ursula Schoeni
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947), Ursula Schoeni
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Ramuz, Charles-Ferdinand (1878-1947), Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist, was born at Cully, a small town on Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud. After completing his studies at the University of Lausanne, he went to Paris, where, from 1902 to 1914, he lived in obscurity and wrote four volumes of poetry in addition to eight novels and two collections of short stories, none of which attracted attention outside a small circle of friends and admirers. Longing for an atmosphere truly congenial to his artistic temperament, he decided to go back to his native Cully. This proved to be a momentous …
Kurt Marti (1921), Rolf Kieser
Kurt Marti (1921), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Marti, Kurt (1921-), Swiss poet and essayist, was born in Bern. He studied law and theology and became a Protestant minister. In the pugnacious tradition of Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and Jeremias Gotthelf, Marti uses the power of the word - both of the Gospel and of literature - to change the consciousness of his readers.
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.
Albin Zollinger (1895-1949), Rolf Kieser
Albin Zollinger (1895-1949), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Zollinger, Albin (1895-1949), Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist, was born in Rüti, canton Zürich, where he spent his life as a schoolteacher. Zollinger is probably the greatest lyric poet in 20th century Swiss-German literature. His poetical style shows a genuine relationship to the styles of Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn, Wilhelm Lehmann, and Peter Huchel.
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."
Peter Bichsel (1935), Regula A. Meier
Peter Bichsel (1935), Regula A. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Bichsel, Peter (1935-), Swiss writer and journalist, grew up in Olten, Solothurn canton, attended the teachers college in Solothurn, and taught at the elementary school in Bellach, where he eventually settled. He first came to the attention of the reading public in 1965, when he was awarded the prize of the prestigious German writers' association, "Gruppe 47."
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.
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 …