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From Saanen In The Canton Of Berne To Nipissing - A Little Known Episode Of Swiss Emigration To Canada, Emile-Henri Bovay

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Some two hundred miles north of Toronto on the road to Burk's Falls, just outside Magnetawan, is an old farm field, shoulder-high in hay. Tucked back in a corner of the field, barely visible from the road, is an old post archway. It is closed with pagewire fencing. Inside the fence, wild fern has all but totally obscured a pioneer graveyard, a memorial to Swiss settlers who helped to open up the country south of Lake Nipissing. Most of the inscriptions on the gravestones are still readable. he names they bear leave no doubt as to the Bernese origin of …

Book Review: La Genese De Nova Friburgo. Emigration Et Colonisation Suisse Au Bresil 1817-1827, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Nicoulin's work on the making of Nova Friburgo is a thoroughly researched and well-presented study, but somewhat limited in its interpretive dimensions. Manuscript materials in Swiss federal, state, and village archives have been extensively consulted as well as archives in Rio de Janeiro and in Nova Friburgo. The author has furthermore perused a great many printed sources all of which enabled him to reconstruct the story of an emigration which in 1819 involved over 2000 Swiss and had the active support of Swiss governments as well as of Brazilian authorities. A 70-page appendix offers the reader a useful sample of …

Introductory Remarks, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

On Saturday, December 1, 1973, some thirty members attended the 1973 annual meeting of the SAHS at the Swiss Town House on 35 West 67th Street in New York City. It was a clear, sunny say which had made travelling pleasant and smooth. The Swiss Town House proved again to be a hospitable place to meet in, especially due to the expert hose, Mr. John Brunner. When the business meeting had closed somewhat earlier than anticipated, Mr. Brunner had quickly some excellent Swiss wine served, and also the luncheon was first-rate as to food and service.

Book Review: Alte Und Neue Welt In Historischer Perspekitive: Sieben Studien Zum Amerikanischen Geschichts-Und Selbstverstandnis, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This small book contains seven essays by Dr. Guggisberg, Professor of History at the University of Basel and member of the Board of Advisors of the Swiss American Historical Society. Except for the first one, they were previously published in various learned journals, yearbooks, an Festschriften.

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The Destructive Messiah : A Study Of Henrik Ibsen's Search For Truth As Portrayed By Rebel Heroes In Brand, An Enemy Of The People, And The Wild Duck, Susan Taylor Soyars

Master's Theses

Having read Henrik Ibsen's major plays, I became interested in his treatment of truth. Brand, Doctor Stockman, and Gregers Werle all represented varied degrees of the truth, each embodying Ibsen's own ideas. It is specifically Gregers Werle' s treatment of the truth that resulted in the conclusions found in this paper.

As Ibsen explored his personal convictions about the truth, a new type of rebel hero began to emerge, a destructive savior. Through this messiah, a Christ-like figure, Ibsen allows the truth to be exploited, which brings about complete destruction to communities,families, and friends.

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Synchrony, Amalgam And Communion: Erico Verissimo's O Tempo E O Vento As Symbolic Complex, Louis L. Ollivier Jr.

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Erico Verissimo's O Tempo e o Vento has long been considered his masterpiece more, it would seem, by dint of its quantity than its quality, since relatively little research has been done on this novel. The attitudes reflected in O Tempo e o Vento concerning the relationship of time and space and man's affiliation thereto have been previously ignored and only through a structuralist analysis of this novel have these determinations been discovered.

The structuralist approach comprises certain inherent assumptions of an a priori system of knowledge. One assumption is reflected in the structure of language which presupposes for all …

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Summer Meeting Of Sahs In Zurch, July 23, 1973, Rolf Kieser

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The summer meeting of SAHS - already a kind of tradition - took place at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich to be guided through the 75 years' Exhibition of the Museum by the director, Dr. Hugo Schenider.

History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The man elected as president of the Swiss American Historical Society in the spring of 1940 was Emil J. Schaefer. Born in 18 92 in Zurich- Hongg, he came to the United States as a 19 year old youth who just had finished the Gymnasium n Winterthur. He attended several colleges in the Midwest and earned a master 's degree in education from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. As a trained educator he worked his way up through teaching at different high schools. On the side he taught part-time at colleges and the University of Wisconsin on the subject …

Rene Naville, Amerindians Et Anciennes Cultures Precolombiennes: Book Review, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Rene Naville, an active diplomat and writer introduces his readers in this work to a variety of Swiss scholars who as travelers or as academicians have dealt with aspects of the native cultures of the Western Hemisphere. The study of these men is to reveal the Swiss presance in the Americans as well as Latin American and Amerindian presence in Switzerland. The auhor bases his findings mainly on secondary sources: this is an attempted synthesis, not a presentation of original new findings.

Meetings In Honor Of Louis Agassiz, Lukas F. Burckhardt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

It is fitting that Lousi Agassiz (1807-1873) be honored this year which marks the centennial of his death. The great pioneering scientist is renowned in Switzerland for his research on glaciers and the glacial ages, as well as in the U.S.A. As founder of the first comprehensive museum of the nautral sciences and as an outstanding teacher at Harvard University.

Reisebericht Der Familie Kopfli & Suppiger St. Louis Am Mississippi And Grundung Von New-Switzerland Im Staate Illinois: Book Review, Hedwig Rappolt

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The book is a facsimile reproduction of the 1833 edition, a small volume appealing in appearance and pleasant to hold. It describes, in the form of a diary and letters, the experiences of a group of Swiss who emigrated to the prairies of Illinois. Two-thirds of it are devoted to the Journey, the ordeal of "getting there": from Sursee to Base l, through France to Havre, on a three-master to New York and over rivers and canals to St. Louis, Missouri the last stepping stone efore settling in Illinois.

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Fritz Medicus, On Being Human . The Life Of Truth And Its Realization: Book Review, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This is a difficult book, the summary of a philosopher's final insights into "Truth and Its Realization". In a language simulataneously straightforward and compledx, questions of logic, ethics, and ultimate values are discussed, all within a tight network of post-Kantian, partly scholastic (that is Judeo-Christianized Aristotelian), Partly idealist (especially Fichtean) concepts. The study demands much patience and willingess to follow a sustained arguement which starts with a critique of phenomenological assumptions and culminates in a redefinition of religion as the domain not of credal structures but of ultimate concern.

Notes In Brief, Leo Schelbert

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Hans Lang-Hembd, "Otto Stoll zum 50. Todestag," Enthologische Zeitschrift Zurich, II (1972), pp. 6-12

Lord Byron At The Armenian Monastery On San Lazzaro, Arpena Mesrobian

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George Gordon, Lord Byron, arrived in Venice on November 11, 1816, a bitter and unhappy man at age 28. He had left England on April 24 in a cloud of controversy and scandal attending the breakup of his short-lived and unsatisfactory marriage.

Immediately after installing himself and his attendants in an apartment in Venice, the young poet sought solace and diversion, finding both in congenial social life and in what became an over-lapping series of ardent love affairs, all well known to the more tolerant Venetians. Eager, too, for mental exercise to distract him from his painful memories, Byron, with …

The 51 Meeting Of The Swiss Abroad In St. Gallen, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

From August 17 to 19, 1973, many Swiss living abroad met in St. Gallen under the auspices of the secretariat of the Swiss Abroad, a branch of the New Helvetic Society. The topic of this year's plenary session was of great interest: "Swiss Societies and Institutions Abroad and Their Activitiies." A wide range of such institutions was discussed by speakers who were all activly involved in their maintenance and development.

The Poetry Of DáMaso Alonso: A Formalist Approach, Douglas Keith Benson

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Dámaso Alonso is one of the most important literary critics in contemporary Spain. He is less well known as a poet. Critics usually include him in the so-called "Generation of 1927, 11 although there are many differences between his work and that of Lorca, Guillén, Salinas, Alberti, Aleixandre, Cernuda and Diego. Many critics misunderstand the techniques and goals of Alonso's early poetry for the same reasons that they misunder­stand the goals of the "Generation of 1927." This poetry is considered "pure," "dehumanized" and "lacking in content" in comparison to the "human, 11 flsocial11 nature of postwar poetry. A large percentage …

News From The President, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In April we received the sad news of the death of Mario Muschi. The editor of the San Francisco-based Swiss Journal, Mr. Muschi had been a member of our society for many years and had served on our Board of Advisors. His obituary by his son Achille Muschi, reprinted in the Amerikanische Schweizer Zeitung of April 18, 1973, states that Mario Muschi was born in Tesserete (Ticino) in 1893 and came to this country in 1915. He spent his life in working for his beloved Swiss Journal with which he s erved the many Swiss on the West Coast. The …

Introductory Remarks, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

It is a great pleasure to present in this newsletter Part Two of Professor Heinz K. Meier's absorbing sketch of the history of the Swiss American Historical Society. He shows ppw many minds tried their best in making the organization relevant, and their efforts remain an inspiration to those engaged in carrying on what they had so enthusiastically begun. Success based on competence and unity of purpose does not come easily as Professor Meier's story clearly shows, but the perspective of time reveals past crises as seemingly unavoidable growth pains and selfless respect for the work of others as perhaps …

Some Forms And Functions Of Contrast In The Islendingasogur, Duane Victor Keilstrup

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

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Concerning current research to 1973 in the Old Norse sagas generally, R. G. Cook suggests that scholars turn more of their attention to the finished product, that is, a return to Grimm’s principle of "die Andacht zum Text," and to a responsible historical criticism which is also responsive to the artistic integrity of the text. He thus believes that we should read the sagas as works of art by concentrating on what we find in them and not so much where and when they might have originated, as scholars in this field have tended to do. Hence, it is …

Jean Rodolphe De Salis, Switzerland And Europe. Essays And Reflections., Leo Schelbert

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This book will be especially welcome to Swiss Americans who do not read German, yet are interested in keeping in touch with their country of origin or want to introduce it to their grown children. Ven Salis, widely known in Switzerland and beyond, can serve as a stimulating and sensitive guide to an understanding of the nature of the Swiss polity, of its past struggles, and of its present attempts at self-definition within the broader European and world community. A lucid and vivid style, well recreated in this translation, and a fair balance between controversial essay, disciplined historical sketch, and …

Short Reviews And Notices, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The family of Hans Ulrich Baggens toss of Rafz, Switzerland, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1743. Two m9re immigrations of Baggenstoss families from Rafz followed - one settled in Minnesota (1879); the other in Tennessee (1895). All appear related to the same Swiss ancestry. The earliest record of the name is found in 1401.

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Ulrich Braker, The Life Story And Real Adventures Of The Poor Man Of Toggenburg, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

Have you not sometimes wished to know in some detail how your (Swiss} ancestors, say of the 18th century, have lived, what kind of daily or unusual troubles they have faced, and what hopes and fears have sustained them? Derek Bowman's translation of t he autobiography of the "Poor Man of Toggenburg" makes just such a portrait available to American readers. It was painted by a writer who was unusual less in his external life-path than in his clarity of vision and in his power of description.

Hans C. Syz, Vom Sein Und Vom Sinn, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

This account, written by a noted psychiatrist, describes a personal, powerful inner event which the author experienced in his twenty-first year as a student at the University of Zfirich, the city of his birth. On Sunday, May 14, 1916, a total anxiety had befallen him with a persistent overpowering force. During the days that followed the state of anxiety shifted and granted tpe young student shockingly magnificent glimpses into the fabric of the human condition. They are offered in this booklet with forceful simplicity.

History Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Heinz K. Meier

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

The decade of the 1930's was a difficult time for most Americans with the depression blighting untold families and individuals. The Swiss Americans, like other ethnic groups, had an additional cause for concern inasmuch as the decade was characterized by isolationism in foreign relations and a wave of nativism at home. The introduction of immigration quotas in the 1920's indicated that the United States prepared itself to put obstacles in the way of free access to the country. Due to the depression the quotas were not even used up by most European countries. The "distant magnet" had lost much of …

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