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The Twenty-Third Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Minutes Of The Business Meeting, Sylva Brunner
The Twenty-Third Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Minutes Of The Business Meeting, Sylva Brunner
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The twenty-third annual meeting of the Swiss American Historical Society was held on Saturday, October 25, 1986, at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, DC.
Women In Swiss Politics, Verena Grendelmeier
Women In Swiss Politics, Verena Grendelmeier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
You all know that Switzerland is that strange, little country in the centre of Europe. It is the place, where cheese has tremendous holes; where the snow-white Alps compete with dark brown mountains of chocolate; where every aborigine keeps his alphorn under the bed and every morning gets up - yodelling - and then, punctually, after a critical glance at his watches (and swatches that cover his left arm up to the elbow and beyond) hurries to his place of work - (you guessed it) - the bank, of course. Above all else it is the country that pretends being …
Media And Politics, Verena Grendelmeier
Media And Politics, Verena Grendelmeier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Who governs Switzerland? ls our country run by the politicians or is it run by the media? To make this clear right away: The answer is, neither by the one nor by the other, as I hope my expose, by assessing the relative roles of politics and politicians and of the media, will demonstrate.
Beyond National Concerns: A Limnologist And World Peace, Arthur D. Hasler
Beyond National Concerns: A Limnologist And World Peace, Arthur D. Hasler
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
I have just returned from a four month tour of duty in Germany where I had opportunity to talk with a fair cross section of Germans and to visit some biological laboratories. In Munich I visited the Zoologisches Institut built by Rockefeller for Professor K. van Frisch. It was here van Frisch and his students investigated the problems of sensory physiology: hearing, color vision, smell, taste, "Schreckstoff" in fish; here also was produced a classic work in animal behavior, "Die 'Sprache' der Bienen," an experimental analysis of the methods of communication among bees. This Institut is badly bombed; only the …
Book Review: An American Apprenticeship: The Letters Of Emil Frey 1860-1865, Shirley J. Burton
Book Review: An American Apprenticeship: The Letters Of Emil Frey 1860-1865, Shirley J. Burton
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In the autumn of 1860, twenty-two-year-old Emil Frey left his native Switzerland for America, apparently under the shadow of an impending scandal, possibly a duel. He arrived in the U.S. at a time when the economy was in a deep slump, and finding himself unable to get work, Frey enlisted in the Union Army in July, 1861. Despite the brutalizing experiences of the war, which included a year and a half as a prisoner of the Confederates, young Frey's arduous American "apprenticeship," as editor Rappolt describes his sojourn, served him well. Returning to Switzerland after the war, he spent several …
Book Review: Historia De San Jeronimo Norte: Una Colonia Agricola-Ganadera De Inmigrantes Suizos En La Republica Argentina, Paul Neufeld Weaver
Book Review: Historia De San Jeronimo Norte: Una Colonia Agricola-Ganadera De Inmigrantes Suizos En La Republica Argentina, Paul Neufeld Weaver
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In the second half of the nineteenth century Argentina experienced a demographic explosion due to immigration which was unrivaled in the Western Hemisphere. Between 1857 and 1930, 3.5 million people immigrated to Argentina, almost all of them Europeans. Simultaneously, Argentina experienced a prolonged period of sustained economic growth, and by 1914 its Gross National Product surpassed that of many European countries.
Book Review: Klimageschichte Der Schweiz 1525-1860 (Vol. I), Bevolkerung, Klima Und Agrarmodernisierung 1525-1860 (Vol. Ii), Ernest Menolfi
Book Review: Klimageschichte Der Schweiz 1525-1860 (Vol. I), Bevolkerung, Klima Und Agrarmodernisierung 1525-1860 (Vol. Ii), Ernest Menolfi
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Although long ago many historians realized the significance of weather information and the great impact of climate on demographic, social, economic, or agricultural development, they have up to now mostly not been in a position to make more than an episodic and illustrative use of it, since the random data was scattered in innumerable diaries, parish registers, yield records, communal and municipal archives, private observation records and the like. Most of those entries, however, do not make sense as individual bits of information (e.g. the cherry blossom time, the beginning of the vintage in one particular year). Yet by systematically …
Book Review: Anthology Of Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi
Book Review: Anthology Of Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
After the publications on Yiddish, Swedish, and Austrian literature, the Anthology of Modern Swiss Literature is the fourth volume in the above-mentioned series. According to the editor, the main purpose is "to bring to the notice of readers of English some examples of the writing of present-day authors from Switzerland; underlying this aim is the conviction that these authors have their own particular messages and style, offering writing which is of a lively and varied nature. Modern Swiss literature has a range and quality that should be capable of arousing a positive and enthusiastic response among students of literature." He …
Book Review: From Stambach To Berlin (Ontario) And The Descendents Of Rev. John W. Stoeckle/Steckle (1802/1879), Delbert Gratz
Book Review: From Stambach To Berlin (Ontario) And The Descendents Of Rev. John W. Stoeckle/Steckle (1802/1879), Delbert Gratz
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This work is an excellent account of a Bernese family who because of their Anabaptist faith was obliged to leave their Schwarzenburg home in 1748 and settle in the Palatinate. Since little better conditions existed there for non-state-church families, the next generation made the great move to Pennsylvania some 80 years later. After a few years in Pennsylvania they moved to the Berlin (since World War II called Kitchener) area which most of the family has called home for the past century and a half.
Book Review: Schweizer Statt Sklaven. Schweizerische Auswanderer In Dem Kaffee-Plantagen Von Sao Paulo (1852-1866), Sylva Brunner
Book Review: Schweizer Statt Sklaven. Schweizerische Auswanderer In Dem Kaffee-Plantagen Von Sao Paulo (1852-1866), Sylva Brunner
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In her doctoral dissertation B. Ziegler describes in great detail an interesting chapter of Swiss emigration history, the mid-nineteenth century movement of Swiss to Brazil. Although Swiss emigrants to countries overseas had mainly chosen as their destinations domains of the United States, Brazil emerged for a time as a close second.
Book Review: Bern, Kansas. Memories Of The First 100 Years, Leo Schelbert
Book Review: Bern, Kansas. Memories Of The First 100 Years, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In text and pictures this nicely produced book presents "an account of some of the events that helped shape the Bern community during its first 100 years" (iv). On the basis of newspaper accounts, interviews, and pictorial treasures hidden in attics or scrapbooks, the author has summarized events in twelve chronologically arranged chapters that consist of vignettes and provide a mosaic-like overview. Except for chapter one featuring "Days of Pioneers (1842-1884)," each section covers a decade identified by some major event as, for instance, "The World War II Era (1940-1949)". General contexts are considered; the last chapter thus opens with …
Book Review: Notes In Brief
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Includes Notes in Brief for the following titles:
- Turning Swiss: Cities and Empire, 1450-1550
- A Castor Family in America, or: The Descendants of Hans Georg Gerster/John George Castor
- Schwester Gertrud Leupi, 1825-1904
- Fur Trade Letters of Francis Ermatinger, written to his brother Edward during his service with the Hudson Bay Company 1818-1853
- "Schweizerische Uberseeauswanderungen 1816- 1913. Ein quantitativer Ansatz
- "People of Choice: Decision Making in an Eighteenth Century Swiss-German Peasant Family"
- "'One's Own Hearth is Like Gold': A History of Helvetia, West Virginia"
Congratulatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Congratulatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
On January 5, 1988, Arthur Davis Hasler, Professor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will celebrate his eightieth birthday. The Swiss American Historical Society is honored to add its congratulations and best wishes to the many he will receive on that occasion not only from family, friends, and scholars in the United States, but also from distinguished scientists and admirers abroad.
Book Review: The History Of The Imperial Valley Swiss, Leo Schelbert
Book Review: The History Of The Imperial Valley Swiss, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
"The most unlikely place in the world you might expect to find a Swiss colony is below sea level in a flat, hot, dry desert such as the Imperial Valley in Southern California," this book's editors rightly observe (v). The region, located a good 110 miles east of San Diego, is a large section of the Colorado desert and its center, the Salton Sea, lies 235 feet below sea level. The climate is hot and ranges from 130 degrees to 20 degrees. At flood stage the water of the Colorado River would pour into the region. "As the water dried, …
Book Review: Alma On The Mississippi 1848-1932, Ernest Menolfi
Book Review: Alma On The Mississippi 1848-1932, Ernest Menolfi
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In 1848 two settlers from Switzerland, Victor Probst and John Waecker, on their way upstream from Galena, Illinois, arrived at a site then called Three Mile Bluff, on the Mississippi in Western Wisconsin. They decided to stay, and soon made a living by cutting firewood for the steamboats. In subsequent years other Swiss immigrants were to follow, principally from the Grisons and the Canton of Berne, but also from the native village of one of the first settlers, namely Biberist in the Canton of Solothurn. So the early census lists contain numerous familiar Swoss names like Berni, Ganz, Marti, Neukomm, …
The Evolution Of A Scholar And His School Of Research: "The Wisconsin Limnology Community - The Hasler Period", Frank N. Egerton
The Evolution Of A Scholar And His School Of Research: "The Wisconsin Limnology Community - The Hasler Period", Frank N. Egerton
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Arthur D. Hasler was born at Lehi, Utah, on January 5, 1908. No one who knows him doubts his own strong conviction that his pioneering Mormon background provided him with ethical and intellectual values that contributed substantially to his successful career. His boyhood interests were in fishing, raising livestock, camping, nature study, and the Boy Scouts. These interests did not lead him inevitably into limnology, however. While an undergraduate at Brigham Young University he seriously considered following his father's example in becoming a physician and was only deflected from that by the financial constraints of the Depression and an ill …
From Switzerland To Utah: Arthur D. Hasler's Grandparents
From Switzerland To Utah: Arthur D. Hasler's Grandparents
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The autobiographies of Louise Thalmann Hasler and Johannes Hasler from their grandson, Arthur D. Hasler, a professor at the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin. Also included is a note on John Hasler from Henry A. Dean regarding Hasler's activities in Sanpete County as the music instructor and director of the Manti Tabernacle Choir.
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This Newsletter is devoted to reviews of recent titles that are of Swiss American interest. Various SAHS members - among them Emile-Henri Bovay, Rudolf Ganz, Erdmann Schmocker, and especially Ruth Jewett - have brought various titles to the editor's attention which is gratefully acknowledged. He invites others to follow their example. He also thanks the contributors to this issue, especially Dr. Ernest Menolfi of the Holbein Gymnasium in Basel, Switzerland, for their valuable contributions.
Book Review: History Of Switzerland. The First Hundred Thousand Years: Before The Beginnings To The Days Of The Present, Lukas Burckhardt, Ernest Menolfi
Book Review: History Of Switzerland. The First Hundred Thousand Years: Before The Beginnings To The Days Of The Present, Lukas Burckhardt, Ernest Menolfi
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Includes two sections:
1. Homage to a fervent friend of Switzerland, J. Murray Luck
In my job as Swiss cultural attache in the United States I had the chance to get help and inspiration- from Americans who were in love with our country and who acted as our good will ambassadors. Quite sincerely aware of our own shortcomings, I had some difficulties in understanding their unswerving belief in our exemplary qualities. Finally, I had to admit that there must be a deeper reason behind this strange phenomenon. Maybe we really have, as a sober small state, a political mission in …
Book Review: Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi
Book Review: Modern Swiss Literature, Ernest Menolfi
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This collection of papers given at a London symposium in March 1984 is in several respects a supplementary companion to H. M. Waidson's Anthology of Modern Swiss Literature (1984). They have the same cover picture - showing the distribution of the four national languages in Switzerland - and together they convey a rather comprehensive idea of what current Swiss literature is. Whereas Waidson's display of the literary production of the last decades is to some extent a neutral view from a distance, this collection of essays adds some more Swiss points of view, mentions further authors, and is by nature …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This SAHS Newsletter is devoted to Hans and Christa Lang, longstanding members of the SAHS and, through their professional pursuits, deeply involved with the past and present pre-white world of the United States.