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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Introduction To The Special Newsletter Issue On Albert Gallatin, 1761-1849, Heinz K. Meier
Introduction To The Special Newsletter Issue On Albert Gallatin, 1761-1849, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This is the second time the Swiss American Historical Society devotes one of its Newsletters to Albert Gallatin. In April 1967 (Vol. III, No. 2), on the occasion of the issue of the l ¾ cent stamp dedicated to Gallatin (in Gallatin , Missouri, on January 30, 1967), we published two articles, one by Ambassador Felix Schnyder and one by Dr. Leo Schelbert, then assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, on the great Genevan-American. Now fifteen years later, we present another issue, with four contributions on our illustrious compatriot and fellow-immigrant. There is no special event or anniversary to …
A Reconstruction Of The Early New Basel Community Of Dickinson County: List Of The First Settlers
A Reconstruction Of The Early New Basel Community Of Dickinson County: List Of The First Settlers
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Jacob Maag (1881-1980), Swiss Stone Carver And Sculptor In The Midwest, Heinz K. Meier
Jacob Maag (1881-1980), Swiss Stone Carver And Sculptor In The Midwest, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Jacob Maag was born in Neunkirch, Canton Schaffhausen, in 1881 and came to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1905. From 1905 to 1961 he worked as a stonecutter and sculptor mainly in Omaha, but also in other parts of the Midwest. In 1962 he became the subject of an oral history project of the Greater Omaha Historical Society as a "pioneer citizen" in their "I Remember" series. The Greater Omaha Historical Society is now defunct, but thanks to Walter Wullschleger (see SAHS Newsletter, XVI, No. 1 (Jan. 1980), 31-36) we received a transcript of that interview. We are pleased to give the …
Erika Burkart (1922), Rolf Kieser
Erika Burkart (1922), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Burkart, Erika (1922-), Swiss poet and novelist, was born in Aarau. Her father was a well-known adventurer, hunter, and author. Although Erika Burkart was educated as a schoolteacher, she decided to write rather than teach and lives in the former residence of the abbots of Muri in Althäusern. She regards her self-sought isolation as an option for nature.
Jean Starobinski (1920), Gerda R. Blumenthal
Jean Starobinski (1920), Gerda R. Blumenthal
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Starobinski, Jean (1920-), Swiss literary critic, was born and educated in Geneva, where he completed studies in literature and medicine. Since 1958 he has taught at the University of Geneva. Like his masters Marcel Raymond and Georges Poulet, Starobinski interprets the act of literary creation as an existential project of self-discovery and self-realization, embodied in the dominant thematic patterns and motifs of an author's works.
To Our Readers, Heinz K. Meier
To Our Readers, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
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Papers Of Albert Gallatin: Project Description, Barbara Oberg
Papers Of Albert Gallatin: Project Description, Barbara Oberg
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The publication of the writings of Albert Gallatin in selected printed volumes is both overdue and particularly timely. In order to come to an understanding of the formative years of the American republic, scholars need to have available the materials of the respected second-level political and administrative leadership of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Of this second-level group of American statesmen, few were so highly regarded and influential as Albert Gallatin. The aim of the present scholarly effort is to publish in a six volume annotated edition the most important public and private papers of a figure important …
Selected Gallatin Bibliography: Primary Sources, Leo Schelbert
Selected Gallatin Bibliography: Primary Sources, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
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Adolf Muschg (1934), Rolf Kieser
Adolf Muschg (1934), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Muschg, Adolf (1934-), Swiss novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, was born in Zollikon near Zurich. In addition to writing, he has pursued an academic career, and has taught at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Göttingen University, Cornell University in the United States, and the University of Geneva. For several years he has been professor of literature at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich.
A Reconstruction Of The Early New Basel Community Of Dickinson County, Kansas, Harvey E. Bross
A Reconstruction Of The Early New Basel Community Of Dickinson County, Kansas, Harvey E. Bross
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The November 1981 issue of the SAHS Newsletter presented the story of the founding of New Basel as featured by Harvey E. Bross in 1963. The community represents one aspect of the Swiss presence in Kansas that needs further methodical exploration. Between 1860 and 1890 quite a few immigrants from Switzerland apparently chose Kansas as their destination. John Rydjord mentions in his Kansas Place-Names (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972), pp. 131-132 the following traces of the Swiss presence: "Helvetia was one of the many towns that boomed and died in Meade County. The place in Finney County where …
'A Bivouac': Swiss Immigrants Camp Out In New York City, 1833, Tyrone Power
'A Bivouac': Swiss Immigrants Camp Out In New York City, 1833, Tyrone Power
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
On August 20, 1833, the Irish comedian Tyron Power (1797-1841) .* arrived in New York City for his first extended tour of the United States. In his Impressions of America; During the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835, Vol. I (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836), pp. 40-43, Power reports the following encounter: A Bivouac.
Albert Gallatin: America's Geneva Connection, William B. Lloyd
Albert Gallatin: America's Geneva Connection, William B. Lloyd
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In February 1801, Washington, the muddy new capital of the United States, was alive with rumors of approaching conflict over the presidency. Despite a strongly anti-Federalist popular vote, electors were evenly divided between Thomas Jefferson, Republican, and Aaron Burr, so that the choice was thrown into the out-going, Federalist controlled House of Representatives. Plans to have the House rule out Jefferson and Burr in favor of a Federalist stalwart were openly discussed. 1,500 Republicans of Maryland and Virginia were reported to be preparing to descend on Washington to assassinate any man thus chosen. The Governor of Maryland was urged to …
Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), Ursula Schoeni
Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), Ursula Schoeni
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Cendrars, Blaise, pseud. of Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1887-1961), Swiss poet and novelist, was born in La Chauxde-Fonds. The nomadic life imposed upon the Sauser family by the future writer's creative but impractical father permanently marked him. He continually yearned for space and travel; although he made Paris his headquarters and France his adopted country, he never stayed long in one place. A distaste for conformity, an insatiable curiosity, and a remarkable mobility of thought led Cendrars to diversify himself in a literary production overwhelming in its variety and abundance.
Swiss American News Notes
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This past summer Dr. Martin Steinmann, expert on Paleography and Director of the Manuscript Division of the University Library of Basel, Switzerland, directed the Third Summer Institute in the Archival Sciences at the Newberry Library of Chicago. Professor Steinmann is the Swiss representative of the International Committee on Paleography and is an internationally recognized expert on German handwriting of the Renaissance and early modern period, as well as the history of printing. His publications include the catalogue of manuscripts of the University of Basel (co-editor), the articles "Die humanistische Schrift und die Anfänge des Humanismus in Basel,"Archiv für Diplomatik …
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Nineteenth Annual Business Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Report Of The Treasurer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Dedication To Lukas F. Burckhardt, Marianne Burkhard
Dedication To Lukas F. Burckhardt, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Nineteenth Annual Business Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Minutes, Arnold H. Price
The Nineteenth Annual Business Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Minutes, Arnold H. Price
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The nineteenth annual meeting of the SAHS was held at the Embassy of Switzerland, Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1982.
Meinrad Inglin (1893-1971), Regula A. Meier
Meinrad Inglin (1893-1971), Regula A. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Inglin, Meinrad tl893-1971), Swiss novelist and short story writer, was born in Schwyz. An account of his youth is contained in the autobiographical novel Werner Amberg (1949). His father, a goldsmith whose love of nature and hunting he shared, perished in the mountains when Inglin was only 12. His mother died three years later. After attending various schools and working as a watchmaker's apprentice and waiter, Inglin took up the study of philosophy, psychology, and literature. He also became an officer in the Swiss army and was frequently called upon to serve his country. He worked on the editorial staffs …
Francesco Chiesa (1871-1973), Hermann W. Haller
Francesco Chiesa (1871-1973), Hermann W. Haller
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Chiesa, Francesco (1871-1973), Swiss poet, short-story writer, and novelist, was born in Sagno in the canton of Ticino. He took a law degree at the University of Pavia, and from 1897 to 1943 taught Italian literature and art history at the canton liceo at Lugano, becoming director in 1914.
Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), Marianne Burkhard
Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Spitteler, Carl (1845-1924), Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist, was born in Liestal, canton Basel-Land. Spitteler created an oeuvre that stands apart from the literature of his time. His preference for epic poetry was rooted in the extraordinary visual sense that retained his childhood experiences in bright, archetypal images vividly conveyed in Meine frühesten Erlebnisse (1914; My Earliest Experiences) and enabled him to depict inner life through action.