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Translation Of An Article From The Liestal Newspaper 21 October 1915
Translation Of An Article From The Liestal Newspaper 21 October 1915
Swiss American Historical Society Review
When a mother with four small children travelled to America, the eldest of which was barely over seven, and the youngest was still hanging on her back -- it was indeed a daring endeavor. It would have been worthy of mention even in peacetime.
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert, H. Dwight Page
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert, H. Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
A Return Visit To The Land Of My Youth Alberta, Canada, Ernest Albert Thurkauf
A Return Visit To The Land Of My Youth Alberta, Canada, Ernest Albert Thurkauf
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In my old years, I often had the urge to revisit the scenes of my youthful days in Alberta, Canada. Florence, my beloved wife, and I had hoped to do it together, but because of her failing health and serious strokes, it was never to be. After her passing in 1985, I purchased a new auto with intentions of_ making a North-Western journey alone. But after numerous trips -- up to North Carolina and New York State -- in the two years after her death, I began to have serious misgivings about a long journey alone. My two sisters, as …
History Of The Kieburtz/Kyburz Family, R. Bruce Kieburtz
History Of The Kieburtz/Kyburz Family, R. Bruce Kieburtz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The origins of the Kieburtz family are found in Switzerland, Canton Aargau, in the town of Oberentfelden. According to the Familien-Namenbuch der Schweiz, a set of books that list family names who possessed rights in a Swiss community as of 1962, the Kieburtz family, historically spelled Kyburz, had citizenship rights prior to 1800 (that qualifies it as an old family) in the towns of Erlinsbach, Oberentfelden, Suhr, Unterkulm, and Niedererlinsbach. The name, and citizenship, has diffused therefrom to at least six other cantons and eleven towns in Switzerland, and the name has migrated to an unknown number of foreign …
Recent Publications Of Genealogical Interest
Recent Publications Of Genealogical Interest
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In 1971 Walter Lips, a specialist in agriculture, was invited by the US Department of Agriculture to visit some 20 farms in the United States. In that context he made numerous contacts with people of Swiss descent and became interested in their history. In 1990, Walter Lips published the article "Die thurgauische Auswanderung nach den USA," Thurgauer Beitrage zur Geschichte 127 (1990) which explored the 1855 to 1862 migration of Swiss of the Amriswil and Sommeri region who had converted to the Mormon faith. In his recent study he followed the trail of the Sprungers whom he found in …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This issue contains one of the three fine papers given at the annual meeting of the SAHS, held in Washington, D.C. on October 7, 1995, at the Embassy of Switzerland. The essay of the American cultural historian Professor H. Dwight Page of the University of Memphis, Tennessee, details the numerous and complex issues posed by the European Union to the Swiss polity. Ambassador Carlo Jagmetti attended the session and offered a thoughtful and appreciative response. Readers interested in Swiss affairs viewed within a European context will especially value Professor Page's incisive analysis.
The Crisis Of Switzerland On The Threshold Of The European Union, H. Dwight Page
The Crisis Of Switzerland On The Threshold Of The European Union, H. Dwight Page
Swiss American Historical Society Review
During the fifty years since the conclusion of World War II in 1945, Europe has undergone more radical changes than during the three preceding millennia. The Treaty of Maastricht, prepared by the twelve members of the European Community in December, 1991, legalizes a process of European social, economic and political unification and homogenization contradicting the evolution of European politics and societies since the fall of the Roman Empire. The majority of the nation states of Western Europe have been generated by a concerted struggle against amalgamation into large transnational empires. Notable examples are France, formed by the dissolution of its …
Book Review: Literary Freedom And Social Constraints In The Works' Of Gertrud Leutenegger., Laura Villiger
Book Review: Literary Freedom And Social Constraints In The Works' Of Gertrud Leutenegger., Laura Villiger
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In and around Switzerland Gertrud Leutennegger ranks among the wellknown contemporary Swiss writers. As yet, however, her work has not been translated and its reception has therefore been limited to German-speaking countries. Margrit Zinggeler' s study thus comes as a welcome introduction to Leutenegger' s writings that is designed for a general as well as specialized readership. As Zinggeler makes clear at the outset of her investigation, when Gertrud Leutenegger first started to write in the early 1970's, her artistic independence signaled a turning point in Swiss women writing. Luckily, the author has never since compromised her inner vision and …
Book Review: Geneva, Zurich, Basel: History, Culture And National Identity, Marion S. Miller
Book Review: Geneva, Zurich, Basel: History, Culture And National Identity, Marion S. Miller
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The idea of identity with Europe is central to the studies of the cities in the two volumes under review. As Carl Schorske suggests in his introduction to Geneva, Zurich, Basel: while Switzerland voted against European unity, these three cities, despite diverse but strong local identities, endorsed the unity concept when a referendum was undertaken in 1992. In a similar vein, James Cracraft, in an essay which surveys the historical background of Peter the Great' s rationale for the building of St. Petersburg in the eighteenth century, is hopeful that the city, reclaiming its original name after the demise of …
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Obituaries
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On January 12, 1996, Hans Rudolf Guggisberg, professor emeritus of the University of Basel, died unexpectedly of a heart attack. On December 15, 1995, he had given his farewell lecture at the University in which he defined himself as a "student of history," as someone for whom personal as well as professional life was as much a process of continued learning as it was of teaching. He had specialized in the history of tolerance in the sixteenth century, especially as promoted by the theologian Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563) who had joined John Calvin at Strasbourg and Geneva; after theological disagreements with …
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Reports, Sabine Jessner, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby, Elisabeth Stockli, Donald Tritt, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Reports, Sabine Jessner, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby, Elisabeth Stockli, Donald Tritt, Leo Schelbert, Selina Sutter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Attache Culturel of the Swiss Embassy, Walter Haffner, welcomed the members of our society to the Swiss Embassy. He was followed by our president Erdmann Schmocker who greeted the attendees to the business meeting. He expressed the society's appreciation to Ambassador Carlo Jagmetti for hosting the meeting and for graciously inviting the participants to be his guests at lunch.
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The first part of .this Review commemorates the founding of New Glarus one hundred and fifty years ago. The farewell address of Caspar Jenny (1812- 1860), a leading Glarnese citizen, speaks to us today as it did to the parting emigrants. The diary entry of Nildaus Durst (1797-1874), one of the two scouts who, after an extended journey through the Midwest, selected the land for the Glarnese emigrants, conveys some of the quiet excitement he felt during New Glarus' very first days. Jessica T. Skropanic, a New Glarnese at heart, offers a sober summary of the town's evolution and the …
New Glarus: Past Success And Future Challenges, Jessica T. Skropanic
New Glarus: Past Success And Future Challenges, Jessica T. Skropanic
Swiss American Historical Society Review
New Glarus had a good foundation for colonization. It had financial support from the sending society via the Emigration Society of Glarus. It was settled in a pleasant location with the resources necessary to gain a good start. Also, the surrounding communities were supportive of colonization. Many people from these communities were of German or Swiss origin and could speak the language fluently. This helped the newcomers to feel some connection with their new environment. The founders came in nuclear family units. This benefitted them in several ways. First, there was the emotional support family members gave to each other. …
Book Review: Mari Sandoz: A Study In Post-Colonial Discourse, Elizabeth Blair
Book Review: Mari Sandoz: A Study In Post-Colonial Discourse, Elizabeth Blair
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Laura R. Villiger' s study is an ambitious and largely successful attempt to reposition this Swiss-American writer in light of contemporary post-colonial literary theory. The ninth volume in a series of publications by the Swiss American Historical Society, Villiger's study analyzes Sandoz' discourse and situates it within its historical, historiographical, and literary contexts.
Book Review: Captain Wirz. Eine Chronik. Ein Dokumentarischer Roman., Leo Schelbert
Book Review: Captain Wirz. Eine Chronik. Ein Dokumentarischer Roman., Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This work, part novel, part chronicle, part historical reconstruction, pursues the thesis: "All involved with Andersonville were in the main pushed, manipulated, cheated" (189). This tale of misfortune has no heroes: Its central character is Henry Wirz, who for some months towards the end of his life was commander of Andersonville, one of the most notorious Confederate prisons for captured soldiers of the North.
Arrival And First Days In New Glarus, Niklaus Dürst
Arrival And First Days In New Glarus, Niklaus Dürst
Swiss American Historical Society Review
1845 on July 17th, we purchased for the esteemed Emigration Society of the Canton of Glarus, at the land office in Mineral Point, Wisconsin Territory, 1200 (twelve hundred) acres of land, namely in Greene County township 4 range 7, at the government price of 1 1/ 4 dollars per acre which on the following days we had surveyed and divided up in 60 lots (parcels) by the surveyor Comfort whom we had to pay wages of 3 dollars per day. Sunday, 20th inst. Mr. Friedrich Streiff and myself, together with our present wagoner, Mr. Friedrich Rudolf of Zurzach (Switzerland) have …
Farewell Address To The Glarnese Emigrants Bound For New Glarus, April 15, 1845, Casper Jenny
Farewell Address To The Glarnese Emigrants Bound For New Glarus, April 15, 1845, Casper Jenny
Swiss American Historical Society Review
What our forefathers, who now rest in God, tried about 130 years ago, namely to organi7.e an emigration of Glarnese people, has now after many efforts become a reality in the fifth decade of the nineteenth century. On the 16th of April 1845, 196 citizens are leaving the homeland that is so dear to all of us, to seek under the guidance of the Emigration Society, which was founded in the year 1844, a new fatherland across the Atlantic Ocean. In order to safeguard all the best interests of the emigrants, the committee has seen fit to appoint two men …