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Louis Pio In America, Thorvald Hansen
Louis Pio In America, Thorvald Hansen
The Bridge
Since I have been working with the Danish Immigrant Archives, and especially with the Danish Immigrant Archival Listing project, it has become increasingly clear to me that those immigrants who become a part of the Danish Church represent but a small fraction of the Danes who came to this country. Sometime in the Danish Church we have, I fear, been so wrapped up in ourselves that we have lost sight of the great majority of Danes who emigrated to America and who, in one way or another have left their mark. Examples are numerous but I think of one little …
The Emigration Of Soren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
The Emigration Of Soren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
The Bridge
John and Jane Doe, USA, are pretty well aware that Denmark exports the best butter, bacon, and cheese in the world to the world. But perhaps not even Jens and Tina Jensen, second and third generation Danish-Americans, realize the extent to which the second-to-none thoughts of a nineteenth century Dane have emigrated and are emigrating to the whole wide world . Indeed, they are valued more by the world than by Danes in Denmark, who can hardly conceal their surprise that the world now pays more attention to Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1865) than to Hans Christian Andersen . The Danes …
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 …
Books, Hans Christian Andersen, Joyce Carol Oates, Reviewer
Books, Hans Christian Andersen, Joyce Carol Oates, Reviewer
The Bridge
"I am as water," Hans Christian Andersen wrote in a letter of 1855. "Everything moves me. Everything is reflected in me. I suppose it is part of my writer's nature, and often I have had pleasure and blessing from it, but it is often also a torment."
Scandinavia And The Prairie School: Chicago Landscape Artist Jens Jensen, J. R. Christianson
Scandinavia And The Prairie School: Chicago Landscape Artist Jens Jensen, J. R. Christianson
The Bridge
The "prairie" was a powerful symbol in Chicago around the tum of the present century. Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and others used it to characterize a new type of architecture with strong horizontal lines and free flowing interior spaces. Poets like Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg sang the glories of a new breed of prairie man and woman, growing like Abraham Lincoln out of the environment of the American heartland. Among landscape artists, Jens Jensen was the leading figure of the Prairie School. He designed "prairie parks" for the city of Chicago, and landscapes appropriate to the new "prairie …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
To Our Readers, Heinz K. Meier
To Our Readers, Heinz K. Meier
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.
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.
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.