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Philosophical Publications Of Fritz Marti
Philosophical Publications Of Fritz Marti
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A collection of publications by Fritz Marti.
Fritz Marti - The Course Of A Busy Life
Fritz Marti - The Course Of A Busy Life
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Born January 1, 1894, Winterthur, Canton Zurich, Switzerland
Public Elementary School Winterthur, 1900-1906
Municipal Gymnasium Bern, 1906-1913, graduated with maximal honors
The Marti School, 1947=1964, Fritz Marti
The Marti School, 1947=1964, Fritz Marti
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Marti School was founded in 1947 in lower Salem, Ohio, first under the name of the Marti Farm Home School, and then the Berglihof School, for the benefit of the six Marti children. Dr. and Mrs. Marti felt they could not let the children waste half of their youth in the necessarily slow moving rural school of the neighborhood.
"Religion And Philosophy": Selections From Fritz Marti's Collected Papers, L. S.
"Religion And Philosophy": Selections From Fritz Marti's Collected Papers, L. S.
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
For the layman the philosopher's quest is at times difficult to comprehend, and yet, we neglect his world at our own peril. Even if we do not grasp the full meaning of his answers, or worse, if we do not even understand his questions, our effort will nevertheless be rewarded. It will at least reveal that surface reality may be likened to a shield that protects from those arrows of questions that target the mysterious abyss of which we humans are all a part and whose contemplation is bound to set us free.
Happenstance Or Providence, Or How I Found All My Jobs, Fritz Marti
Happenstance Or Providence, Or How I Found All My Jobs, Fritz Marti
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A man's life is shaped by decisions often not his own. Even before my conception it was decided what I was to be, and the date of my birth, too, was decisive.
Memories Of My Father, Margot Ammann Durrer
Memories Of My Father, Margot Ammann Durrer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Father's childhood was spent in Feuerthalen, a small town in Canton Zurich, Switzerland. The beautiful city of Schaffhausen lies on the right bank of the Rhine and the town of Feuerthalen on the left, just above the magnificient Rhine Falls. The sharp turn of the Rhine makes a partial island of this district, so bridges form an important part of communication for the inhabitants.
Othmar Hermann Ammann, 1879-1965. His Way To Great Bridges, Urs C. Widmer, Heinz K. Meier
Othmar Hermann Ammann, 1879-1965. His Way To Great Bridges, Urs C. Widmer, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In 1904, O. H. Ammann, aged 25, freshly graduated civil engineer of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, went to the United States encouraged by his former teacher in hydraulics, Professor Karl Emil Hilgard, who had himself worked as bridge engineer on the Northern Pacific Railway. More than anything else the young engineer wanted to widen his horizon and to gain some experience to follow-up his sound professional training, which he owed in part to Professor Wilhelm Ritter and to three years in the field in Switzerland and Germany. To his surprise he was immediately employed by Joseph …
Bibliography: Publications By And About O. H. Ammann
Bibliography: Publications By And About O. H. Ammann
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
A collection of publications by and about Othmar Ammann.
Introduction, Heinz K. Meier
Introduction, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
By accident, or evolution if you will, rather than by design, this issue of the SAHS Newsletter has become a special number devoted entirely to the great Swiss-American bridge builder Othmar H. Ammann who was born one hundred years ago in Feuerthalen, Canton Zurich. Sincere thanks are due to Mr. Urs Widmer, mayor of Winterthur, whose special interest in Ammann led to the production of most of the materials used in this Newsletter, and to Dr. Margot Ammann Durrer whose personal reminiscences add a delightful human touch to the story.
Emigration: New Beginning Or Premature End? A Book Review, Heinz K. Meier
Emigration: New Beginning Or Premature End? A Book Review, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Why were certain experiments of planned emigrati.0n crowned with success while others ended in dismal failure? What went wrong in one case and turned out well in the other? What were the factors that determined the outcome of such experiments? These and similar questions arise in reading and comparing two small books, published last year in Switzerland, that deal with the history of two different emigration ventures from Switzerland to the United States of America
Minutes Of The 15th Annual Business Meeting Of The (Reactivated) Swiss-American Historical Society, John Brunner
Minutes Of The 15th Annual Business Meeting Of The (Reactivated) Swiss-American Historical Society, John Brunner
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
President Leo Schelbert called the meeting to order at 10:20 a.m.
The President welcomed the sixteen members present and communicated the regrets of Professor Rolf Kieser and Bruno Gujer for not being able to attend (Professor Kieser was giving a lecture in Canada; Bruno Gujer was having his wedding day).
A Summary Of Replies To The Questionnaire On The Future Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Alice H. Finckh
A Summary Of Replies To The Questionnaire On The Future Of The Swiss American Historical Society, Alice H. Finckh
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In the early summer of 1978 Marianne Burkhard, of the University of Illinois, circulated a questionnaire among the members of the Swiss American Historical Society designed to probe their opinions regarding the future course of the Society. The varied responses she received run the gamut of strong support for new directions to emphatic warnings against becoming involved in expensive programs or diluting the purpose and goals of the Society. Dr. Burkhard asked me to try to summarize the responses. The first part of this report summarizes and tabulates, so far as possible; the second part condenses individual comments written on …
Miscellanea
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The Monaco family of Verscio, Switzerland--when and how did five brothers and sisters immigrate from this canton of Ticino in the early 1850's and 1860's to California and Nevada?
Book Review: Les Derniers Puritains, Pionniers D'Amérique, 1851-1920., Lukas Burckhardt
Book Review: Les Derniers Puritains, Pionniers D'Amérique, 1851-1920., Lukas Burckhardt
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Théodore Bost was born in 1834 at Carouge near Genea, emigrated in 1851 to St. Paul, Minnesota, became a farmer in nearby Carver County, stayed in Minnesota until 1887 and then moved to Pomona near Los Angeles and died in California in 1920. His wife, Sophie née Bonjour from Neuchâtel, born in 1835, married him in 1858 and died in 1922. Both stood firmly in the protestant tradition. The Bost family, with its pastors, missionaries and even a pioneer in social work for handicapped children, shows how strongly the religions spirit of Geneva has influenced many lives of its citizens. …
The Swiss-American Family De Steiguer, J. E. De Steiguer
The Swiss-American Family De Steiguer, J. E. De Steiguer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The following pages present an overview of the 500-year history of the Swiss-American family de Steiguer. It is a story which depicts the gradual rise and abrupt decline of a family within one of the most exclusive aristocracies of 18th century Europe and their subsequent settlement in the frontier states of America.
Notes From The Editor, Heinz K. Meier
Notes From The Editor, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Swiss Mennonite Story: Study Tour Itinerary, Delbert Grätz, H. K. Meier
Swiss Mennonite Story: Study Tour Itinerary, Delbert Grätz, H. K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Welcome aboard to a tour of a lifetime! This is not an ordinary package tour but one in which each phase has been worked out by myself with the aid of Byron Ediger, Manager of Menno Travel Service, 310 S. Main St., Goshen, Indiana. 46526.
Book Review: The Swiss American Historical Society 1927-1977, Leo Schelbert
Book Review: The Swiss American Historical Society 1927-1977, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This history of a small ethnic-national association is not the usual anniversary publication, listing glorious achievements and displaying pictures of smiling officers or of happy gatherings. It presents instead a concise anatomy of the ups and downs, even near collapses, the organization faced during its first five decades.
Albert Staub: The Story Of A Wayward Swiss Immigrant, Paul Hockings, H. K. Meier
Albert Staub: The Story Of A Wayward Swiss Immigrant, Paul Hockings, H. K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
December 18, 1977, happened to be the 120th anniversary of the first murder ever to have taken place in what was then the remote village of Blue Island, and is nowadays a large suburb at the south end of Chicago.
Leo Schelbert And Hedwig Rappolt, Eds,: Alles Ist Ganz Anders Hier, Bruno Gujer
Leo Schelbert And Hedwig Rappolt, Eds,: Alles Ist Ganz Anders Hier, Bruno Gujer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
To emigrate to the United States today does not seem to be the great adventure anymore that it once was. The material inconveniences of the move are negligible, the problems of psychological adjustment trivial compared to the physical hardships and culture shocks endured by the immigrants in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
Introductory Remarks, Heinz K. Meier
Introductory Remarks, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This issue of the SAHS Newsletter is given almost entirely to a genealogical article by Leo Schelbert and Sandra Luebking that has previously been published in the Summer 1977 issue of Pennsylvania Folklife (Vol. XXVI, No. 5). We are grateful to Dr. Don Yoder, editor of Pennsylvania Folklife, for permission to copy the article in its entirety. Schelbert and S. Luebking, a teacher and genealogist in Chicago, have added an index of the names in all their spelling variations that should prove helpful to users of the annotated checklist.
Murray Luck Et. Al. , Eds., Modern Switzerland, Heinz K. Meier
Murray Luck Et. Al. , Eds., Modern Switzerland, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Modern Switzerland announces itself as "a comprehensive cross-sectional view as portrayed in 26 chapters by an allSwiss panel of authors." The issue of the SAHS Newsletter that carries this review also contains a flyer with a table of contents giving the titles of the twenty-six chapters as well as the names and affiliations of the twenty-seven contributors.
The Institute Of Texan Cultures, The Swiss Texans1978, Heinz K. Meier
The Institute Of Texan Cultures, The Swiss Texans1978, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This is an illustrated, indexed brochure, 26 double-columned pages in length. The Swiss are introduced as "The most cosmopolitan immigrants to come to Texas with the least reason for coming ... " This statement contains important clues about the nature of Swiss emigration and the difficulties of writing about it. Due to the absence of strong outside determining factors such as "ideological oppression, economic depressions and natural catastrophes," decisions to leave Switzerland were almost always individually colored. There were no more or less uniform mass emigrations and very few large-scale settlement enterprises. The phrase "most cosmopolitan" in the introductory quotation …