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Full-Text Articles in European History
Letter From South Carolina, 23, 1737, Johann Ulrich Giezendanner
Letter From South Carolina, 23, 1737, Johann Ulrich Giezendanner
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Introductory Note:
Johann Ulrich Giezendanner ( 1686-173 7) of Lichtensteig, Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland, by profession a gold- and silversmith, had briefly studied at the University of Marburg in Germany and had become one of the 'awakened' in the spirit of Pietism which was then influencing the various Christian denominations. (The movement minimized the difference between clergy and laity and stressed religion as a matter of experience and deeply-felt piety rather than as doctrine and as a set of rules to be obeyed.) Between 1 715 and 1720 J. U. Giezendanner preached to large crowds, but was silenced by offical …
Review Essay: Life-Saving Diplomacy, Tadeusz Debski
Review Essay: Life-Saving Diplomacy, Tadeusz Debski
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Leo Schelbert, ed., Switzerland Under Siege 1939-1945: A Neutral Nation's Struggle for Survival. Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2000.
Theo Tschuy, Dangerous Diplomacy. The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2000.
David Kranzler, The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mante/lo, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour. Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust Series, Alan L. Berger, ed. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Swiss Families From The Toggenburg And Werdenberg At Home And Abroad: A Genealogical Sketch, Ernest W. Alther
Swiss Families From The Toggenburg And Werdenberg At Home And Abroad: A Genealogical Sketch, Ernest W. Alther
Swiss American Historical Society Review
During past centuries the moving due to marriage of Toggenburg and Werdenberg families within the region or across borders to neighboring countries can often be observed. Lichtensteig, Wil, and the town of St. Gallen were drawing points for commerce and business for the people of the Toggenburg, and moving across the Swiss border is documented already in the sixteenth century from and to W erdenberg and Appenzell, as shown by moves of families such as Alther, Gantenbein, Giezendanner, and Steiner. They were leaving not only for other European countries but also for overseas, especially to regions that became part of …
Review: Bertrand Piccard And Brian Jones, Around The World In 20 Days: The Story Of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Cheryl R. Ganz
Review: Bertrand Piccard And Brian Jones, Around The World In 20 Days: The Story Of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Cheryl R. Ganz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Around the World in 20 Days is a compelling personal narrative by the two pilots who first circumnavigated the globe by balloon in 1999 in the Breitling Orbiter 3. Having failed in his first two attempts to conquer this one remaining aeronautical challenge of twentieth century, Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard invited British flight instructor Brian Jones to join him for the ultimate adventurer's project. Together they assembled a working team of corporate representatives, aviation controllers, meteorologists, friends, and family who spent years in preparation for the balloon launch from Chateau d'Oex, Switzerland in the winter of 1999. Five other …
Review: Lionel Gossman, Basel In The Age Of Burckhardt. A Study In Unseasonable Ideas, Benn Williams
Review: Lionel Gossman, Basel In The Age Of Burckhardt. A Study In Unseasonable Ideas, Benn Williams
Swiss American Historical Society Review
"Monotonie sans egale" or sanctuary for "unbridled thinkers"?
Being human and prone to forming first impressions, this reviewer glanced at the full title of the text under review, and saw red flags rising. First, in the spirit of full disclosure, this non-Swiss reviewer has only "visited" Basel once: an unpleasant-and unexpected-wintry layover courtesy of a French rail strike. Second, seeing "unseasonable ideas" in the same title as anyone other than Nietzsche raises one's hackles. Third, while the works of Burckhardt enjoy renewed interest among art historians and publishers, he remains largely ignored by "new" cultural and intellectual historians and humanists …
Book Review: Six Bridges: The Legacy Of Othmar Ammann, Nicole Butz
Book Review: Six Bridges: The Legacy Of Othmar Ammann, Nicole Butz
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Around his eightieth birthday, the Swiss-American engineer, Othmar Ammann moved to an apartment at the top of the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. One imagines that he, gazing down on the city below, could have only marveled at how much its landscape had changed since his arrival there fiftyodd years earlier. He also could have delighted in his own accomplishments, the vistas from his new home offering visual confirmation of his professional successes. With views in three directions, Ammann would have seen virtually all of "his bridges": the George Washington to the north; the Triborough, Bronx-Whitestone, and Throgs Neck to the …
Sahs Annual Report, Paula Sherman, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Sabine Jessner
Sahs Annual Report, Paula Sherman, Erdmann Schmocker, Fred Moser, Ernest Thurston, Leo Schelbert, Sabine Jessner
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Hans Heinrich Felder, Jr., Captain In South Carolina's Revolutionary Army, 1778, Walter Lips
Hans Heinrich Felder, Jr., Captain In South Carolina's Revolutionary Army, 1778, Walter Lips
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The progenitor of the American Felder family was Hans Heinrich Felder who was born in Wiedikon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, about 1701. He, his wife Ursula, and their ten-year old son Hans Heinrich, Jr., later John Henry, settled in Orangeburg Township, South Carolina in 1735. The family was granted 350 acres of land, that is more than half a square mile, on September 17, 1738 by King George II of England. Hans Heinrich Felder, Sr., however, died that same year, and his wife passed away a year later in 1739. Their son John Henry Felder was only 14 years old when …
Book Review: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief., Virginia B. Schelbert
Book Review: Ambiguous Loss. Learning To Live With Unresolved Grief., Virginia B. Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The author, Professor of Family Social Services at the University of Minnesota, is the daughter of the late Paul and of Verena Magdalena Grossenbacher, born Elmer. Her father was a native of Burgdorf, Canton Bern, and had been a main promoter of New Glarus' Swiss American institutions. 3 Thus Dr. Boss begins her book with a personal narrative which describes growing up with the effects of the immigrant experience on family members. Her people had left their homeland Switzerland and many beloved relatives in the early 1900' s for life in the American Midwest, only to encounter yearning, homesickness, and …
A Business Economist With Swiss Heritage Looks At Switzerland, Donald P. Hilty
A Business Economist With Swiss Heritage Looks At Switzerland, Donald P. Hilty
Swiss American Historical Society Review
For many in the United States, the word "Switzerland" conjures up pleasant thoughts of cows, mountains, Heidi, democracy -- maybe also a proud heritage and some dear friends -- but, perhaps, a country that is a bit dull. The purpose here is to alert this audience: Switzerland is not dull. It is in the big leagues of international business. This small country in the middle of Europe has gained the stature of an economic giant, not just in relation to its size but in absolute terms.
Review Essay, Stefan Maechler, John E. Woods
Review Essay, Stefan Maechler, John E. Woods
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Stefan Maechler, The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth.
Translated by John E. Woods. New York: Random House , 2001.
vii, 496 pp. Paperback, $16.95.In
Swiss In South Dakota: A Preliminary Sketch, Leo Schelbert
Swiss In South Dakota: A Preliminary Sketch, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Prepared in Commemoration of the Opening of the
Midwest Dairy Institute, Milbank, South Dakota, June 7, 200 I
Events
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Dedication of the Midwest Dairy Institute (MDI)
Milbank, South Dakota, June 7, 2001
A "Target Switzerland" Evening, Ted Hattemer
A "Target Switzerland" Evening, Ted Hattemer
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Swiss Benevolent Association (SBA) of Greater Cincinnati invited
members and friends residing in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana as well as in
Detroit and Chicago to attend a "Target Switzerland" Evening on Saturday,
April 28, 2001 at the Drawbridge Inn in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. The SBA
believed that it was most important that Americans in general and Swiss
Americans and their descendants in particular know the true story of
Switzerland's situation and actions during the Second World War.
Comments And Announcements, Lukas F. Burckhardt
Comments And Announcements, Lukas F. Burckhardt
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Swiss General Strike of 1918
Lukas F. Burckhardt, Bern