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Full-Text Articles in European History
Papers Of Albert Gallatin: Project Description, Barbara Oberg
Papers Of Albert Gallatin: Project Description, Barbara Oberg
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The publication of the writings of Albert Gallatin in selected printed volumes is both overdue and particularly timely. In order to come to an understanding of the formative years of the American republic, scholars need to have available the materials of the respected second-level political and administrative leadership of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Of this second-level group of American statesmen, few were so highly regarded and influential as Albert Gallatin. The aim of the present scholarly effort is to publish in a six volume annotated edition the most important public and private papers of a figure important …
Selected Gallatin Bibliography: Primary Sources, Leo Schelbert
Selected Gallatin Bibliography: Primary Sources, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Dedication To Lukas F. Burckhardt, Marianne Burkhard
Dedication To Lukas F. Burckhardt, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Kierkegaard Who Actually Emigrated To America, Carl Woltzer
Kierkegaard Who Actually Emigrated To America, Carl Woltzer
The Bridge
Niels Andreas Kierkegaard, born April 13, 1809, was apparently destined by his father, a merchant in Copenhagen, to take over the family business. His two brothers were top students in the University-bound curriculum, but Niels was steered into business. Dissatisfaction with the course his life was taking and frustration with parental pressure led him in 1832 to seek advance payment on his inheritance and to emigrate to America, where he by no means lived the life of a prodigal son . In letters to his family, the first one from Providence, Rhode Island, and dated January 8, 1833, he told …
Peter Lassen: Danish Pioneer Of California, Franklin D. Scott
Peter Lassen: Danish Pioneer Of California, Franklin D. Scott
The Bridge
"The Dane Peter Lassen," or " Peter Lassen, a Danish Blacksmith," appears in almost every memoir dealing with early northern California. His Danishness was obvious, though no one bothers to explain why. Was his speech the telltale feature? The man was almost thirty years of age when he left Denmark, and he had had no opportunity to learn English while his tongue was ductile. He came to California in the spring of 1840, at the beginning of a decade of decision. At that moment Indians inhabited the land, Russians were still established on the California coast, Mexicans held title to …
Language Transition And Danish Children's Schools In The U.S., Ejnar Farstrup
Language Transition And Danish Children's Schools In The U.S., Ejnar Farstrup
The Bridge
Very few Danish immigrants who came to the United States just prior to and immediately following the beginning of the Twentieth Century were acquainted with the English language. Immigrants of every ethnic group have countless tales, some comic and some rather serious, of the difficulties which befell them. Years after their arrival, most of them could regale themselve at length with stories of misinterpretations and the blending of language from their own experiences. A good sense of humor carried most of them through. Others succumbed to a nostalgia which drove them back to the homeland. Still others, who might have …
Life On Lilac Hill Sketches Of Karen And Chresten Pedersen's Prairie Years, Karen M. Kadgihn
Life On Lilac Hill Sketches Of Karen And Chresten Pedersen's Prairie Years, Karen M. Kadgihn
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A jackrabbit was sunning himself on a rock in the warm March sun, stretched out and went to sleep. Suddenly a noise awakened him and he jumped quickly away at right angles to where the noise had originated. From a safe distance he stopped, sat up to see what had disturbed his siesta, wiggling his ears and nose as he watched another of those strange creatures going by his sunning rock. What were they? They had been passing in increasing numbers, and had actually made parallel tracks right by his rock!
Scandinavia And The Prairie School: Chicago Landscape Artist Jens Jensen, J. R. Christianson
Scandinavia And The Prairie School: Chicago Landscape Artist Jens Jensen, J. R. Christianson
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The "prairie" was a powerful symbol in Chicago around the tum of the present century. Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and others used it to characterize a new type of architecture with strong horizontal lines and free flowing interior spaces. Poets like Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg sang the glories of a new breed of prairie man and woman, growing like Abraham Lincoln out of the environment of the American heartland. Among landscape artists, Jens Jensen was the leading figure of the Prairie School. He designed "prairie parks" for the city of Chicago, and landscapes appropriate to the new "prairie …
"Bring . .. The Books." Notes On The Danish Lutheran Publishing House, 1877-1963, Mark Friis-Hansen
"Bring . .. The Books." Notes On The Danish Lutheran Publishing House, 1877-1963, Mark Friis-Hansen
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"The mental alertness and spiritual hunger of the Apostle Paul shine through the words of his request to his young friend Timothy. The business of our Danish Lutheran Publishing House is founded on that, and on our Lord 's command to His Church to bring the Gospel to every nation . . . Its business is not to make money, but to do the printing of the Church. Its success or failure is to be measured not by the figures in its "profits" or "losses" columns, but in the volume or extent of its distribution of Christian books and other …
The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Udvandrerarkiv, Aalborg, Inger Bladt
The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Udvandrerarkiv, Aalborg, Inger Bladt
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On July 3, 1982, Det Danske Udvandrerarkiv in Aalborg will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary and look back on an existence marked by great difficulties. During critical times, in fact, its continued existence often seemed in doubt.
0349: Jennie Petrie Emmons Diary, 1929, Marshall University Special Collections
0349: Jennie Petrie Emmons Diary, 1929, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of one volume entitled, “All About Going Abroad: With Maps and A Handy Travel Diary” by Harry A. Franck, 1927. The front leaf indicates that the book was presented from Jennie to Minnie in honor of their trip abroad documented in the volume. The volume contains a diary section that is filled with entries ranging in date from June 22 to July 29, 1929. The entries cover western Europe and document what the Emmons did during their time abroad, as well as some historical background on the places where they traveled.
0369: Donna Musa Scrapbooks, 1933-1941, Marshall University Special Collections
0369: Donna Musa Scrapbooks, 1933-1941, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of twelve scrapbooks found by the donor at an estate sale near Wheeling, West Virginia. These scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings grouped into various subject categories concerning Germany's advance in Europe. Groups include political cartoons, map, and articles by several columnists, including David Lawrence, Westbrook Pegler, and Dorothy Thompson. The “Youngstown Vindicator and the Youngstown Telegram” seem to be the newspapers.
The Danish Dip, Edna H. Hong
The Danish Dip, Edna H. Hong
The Bridge
My first reaction to our son's Danish school teacher was one of dismay, for I was still under the dismal domination of the American veneration of youthiness. Somehow the keen, kind blue eyes and the lean, lithe body of the grey-haired gentleman who rose at his elevated desk to greet me when I entered the school room, accompanied by my wretched, reluctant, rebellious, ready-to-bolt nine year old, did not tranquilize the depressing discovery that the teacher Theodore was to have his first year in a foreign school was an old man - at least sixty!
Jean Starobinski (1920), Gerda R. Blumenthal
Jean Starobinski (1920), Gerda R. Blumenthal
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Starobinski, Jean (1920-), Swiss literary critic, was born and educated in Geneva, where he completed studies in literature and medicine. Since 1958 he has taught at the University of Geneva. Like his masters Marcel Raymond and Georges Poulet, Starobinski interprets the act of literary creation as an existential project of self-discovery and self-realization, embodied in the dominant thematic patterns and motifs of an author's works.
Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), Marianne Burkhard
Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Spitteler, Carl (1845-1924), Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist, was born in Liestal, canton Basel-Land. Spitteler created an oeuvre that stands apart from the literature of his time. His preference for epic poetry was rooted in the extraordinary visual sense that retained his childhood experiences in bright, archetypal images vividly conveyed in Meine frühesten Erlebnisse (1914; My Earliest Experiences) and enabled him to depict inner life through action.
Swiss American News Notes
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This past summer Dr. Martin Steinmann, expert on Paleography and Director of the Manuscript Division of the University Library of Basel, Switzerland, directed the Third Summer Institute in the Archival Sciences at the Newberry Library of Chicago. Professor Steinmann is the Swiss representative of the International Committee on Paleography and is an internationally recognized expert on German handwriting of the Renaissance and early modern period, as well as the history of printing. His publications include the catalogue of manuscripts of the University of Basel (co-editor), the articles "Die humanistische Schrift und die Anfänge des Humanismus in Basel,"Archiv für Diplomatik …
To Our Readers, Heinz K. Meier
To Our Readers, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Adolf Muschg (1934), Rolf Kieser
Adolf Muschg (1934), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Muschg, Adolf (1934-), Swiss novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, was born in Zollikon near Zurich. In addition to writing, he has pursued an academic career, and has taught at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Göttingen University, Cornell University in the United States, and the University of Geneva. For several years he has been professor of literature at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Erika Burkart (1922), Rolf Kieser
Erika Burkart (1922), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Burkart, Erika (1922-), Swiss poet and novelist, was born in Aarau. Her father was a well-known adventurer, hunter, and author. Although Erika Burkart was educated as a schoolteacher, she decided to write rather than teach and lives in the former residence of the abbots of Muri in Althäusern. She regards her self-sought isolation as an option for nature.
A Reconstruction Of The Early New Basel Community Of Dickinson County, Kansas, Harvey E. Bross
A Reconstruction Of The Early New Basel Community Of Dickinson County, Kansas, Harvey E. Bross
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The November 1981 issue of the SAHS Newsletter presented the story of the founding of New Basel as featured by Harvey E. Bross in 1963. The community represents one aspect of the Swiss presence in Kansas that needs further methodical exploration. Between 1860 and 1890 quite a few immigrants from Switzerland apparently chose Kansas as their destination. John Rydjord mentions in his Kansas Place-Names (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972), pp. 131-132 the following traces of the Swiss presence: "Helvetia was one of the many towns that boomed and died in Meade County. The place in Finney County where …
'A Bivouac': Swiss Immigrants Camp Out In New York City, 1833, Tyrone Power
'A Bivouac': Swiss Immigrants Camp Out In New York City, 1833, Tyrone Power
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
On August 20, 1833, the Irish comedian Tyron Power (1797-1841) .* arrived in New York City for his first extended tour of the United States. In his Impressions of America; During the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835, Vol. I (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836), pp. 40-43, Power reports the following encounter: A Bivouac.
Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), Ursula Schoeni
Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), Ursula Schoeni
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Cendrars, Blaise, pseud. of Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1887-1961), Swiss poet and novelist, was born in La Chauxde-Fonds. The nomadic life imposed upon the Sauser family by the future writer's creative but impractical father permanently marked him. He continually yearned for space and travel; although he made Paris his headquarters and France his adopted country, he never stayed long in one place. A distaste for conformity, an insatiable curiosity, and a remarkable mobility of thought led Cendrars to diversify himself in a literary production overwhelming in its variety and abundance.