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The Nineteenth Annual Business Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Minutes, Arnold H. Price
The Nineteenth Annual Business Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Minutes, Arnold H. Price
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The nineteenth annual meeting of the SAHS was held at the Embassy of Switzerland, Washington, D.C., on October 30, 1982.
The Nineteenth Annual Business Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Report Of The Treasurer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Meinrad Inglin (1893-1971), Regula A. Meier
Meinrad Inglin (1893-1971), Regula A. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Inglin, Meinrad tl893-1971), Swiss novelist and short story writer, was born in Schwyz. An account of his youth is contained in the autobiographical novel Werner Amberg (1949). His father, a goldsmith whose love of nature and hunting he shared, perished in the mountains when Inglin was only 12. His mother died three years later. After attending various schools and working as a watchmaker's apprentice and waiter, Inglin took up the study of philosophy, psychology, and literature. He also became an officer in the Swiss army and was frequently called upon to serve his country. He worked on the editorial staffs …
Albert Gallatin: America's Geneva Connection, William B. Lloyd
Albert Gallatin: America's Geneva Connection, William B. Lloyd
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In February 1801, Washington, the muddy new capital of the United States, was alive with rumors of approaching conflict over the presidency. Despite a strongly anti-Federalist popular vote, electors were evenly divided between Thomas Jefferson, Republican, and Aaron Burr, so that the choice was thrown into the out-going, Federalist controlled House of Representatives. Plans to have the House rule out Jefferson and Burr in favor of a Federalist stalwart were openly discussed. 1,500 Republicans of Maryland and Virginia were reported to be preparing to descend on Washington to assassinate any man thus chosen. The Governor of Maryland was urged to …
Francesco Chiesa (1871-1973), Hermann W. Haller
Francesco Chiesa (1871-1973), Hermann W. Haller
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Chiesa, Francesco (1871-1973), Swiss poet, short-story writer, and novelist, was born in Sagno in the canton of Ticino. He took a law degree at the University of Pavia, and from 1897 to 1943 taught Italian literature and art history at the canton liceo at Lugano, becoming director in 1914.
A Reconstruction Of The Early New Basel Community Of Dickinson County: List Of The First Settlers
A Reconstruction Of The Early New Basel Community Of Dickinson County: List Of The First Settlers
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Otto F. Walter (1928), Regula A. Meier
Otto F. Walter (1928), Regula A. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Walter, Otto F. (1928-), Swiss novelist and playwright, was born in Rickenbach near Olten, canton Solothurn. After graduating from the gymnasium, he served as an apprentice to a bookseller and worked for a printing office in Cologne. In 1956 he took charge of the literary program of the Walter publishing house in Olten. Eleven years later, in 1967, he joined the firm of Luchterhand in Darmstadt in the same capacity.
Swiss Literature, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss Literature, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Switzerland has a rich literary tradition. In modern times both the German- and the French-speaking regions have produced important writers who left distinctive marks on the literature and culture of their time. The 18th century was a time of literary florescence in Switzerland. Important writers of that period include the Bernese patrician Albrecht von Haller (1708-77), whose long poem Die Alpen (1729; The Alps) extols the beauty and grandeur of nature; Johann Jokob Bodmer (1698-1783) and Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701-66) of Zurich, who helped free German literature from the confines of rigid rules; Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712- 78), "citizen of Geneva," …
Kurt Marti (1921), Rolf Kieser
Kurt Marti (1921), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Marti, Kurt (1921-), Swiss poet and essayist, was born in Bern. He studied law and theology and became a Protestant minister. In the pugnacious tradition of Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and Jeremias Gotthelf, Marti uses the power of the word - both of the Gospel and of literature - to change the consciousness of his readers.
Albert Gallatin, The Man Of Peace, William D. Carter Iii
Albert Gallatin, The Man Of Peace, William D. Carter Iii
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
On July 15, 1780, a nineteen-year old graduate of the Academy of Geneva, after forty-nine days voyage on the American vessel Kitty, put ashore at Cape Anne, Massachusetts, and on a borrowed horse rode twenty-six miles to Boston. Thus began the fortunes in the New World of Albert Gallatin who, until his death at 89 years, was to make an outstanding contribution to the life of his adopted country. Thanks to the systematic organization of his correspondence, now available in the New York Historical Society, and the dissemination of microfilms of this correspondence made possible by New York University, it …
Jakob Bosshart (1862-1924), Regula A. Meier
Jakob Bosshart (1862-1924), Regula A. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Bosshart, Jakob (1862-1924), Swiss novelist, short-story writer, and poet, was born in a lonely farm in Stürzikon near Zurich. He trained at a teachers college and later studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Paris, and Zurich, earning a Ph.D. degree at Zurich. An able educator, Bosshart served as rector of the cantonal gymnasium in Zurich for 17 years. Ill · health forced him to resign, and he subsequently moved to Clavadel, where he worked at his writing and fought a losing battle against tuberculosis.
Albert Gallatin, 176101849, A Genevan In The American Enlightenment: An Essay In Interpretation, Leo Schelbert
Albert Gallatin, 176101849, A Genevan In The American Enlightenment: An Essay In Interpretation, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Albert Gallatin has been called "America's Forgotten Statesman."1 A review of scholarly and public endeavors shows, however, that he has received serious attention, especially in recent decades. Best known is, perhaps, the excellent biography by Raymond Walters Jr. of 1957, a concise, learned, and balanced portrait.2 In 1958 Rutgers University Press published Alexander Balinky's Albert Gallatin Fiscal Theories and Policies, a comprehensive study. Although Balinky profoundly misunderstood .Gallatin in favor of Hamiltonian programs, he offered nevertheless a scholarly treatise to be reckoned with.3 In 1963 Gayle Thornbrough edited the Correspondence of John Badollet and Albert Gallatin …
Max Frisch (1911), Rolf Kieser
Max Frisch (1911), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Frisch, Max (1911-), Swiss novelist, playwright, diarist, and essayist, was born in Zurich. Frisch studied architecture and was a successful architect for several years before he decided in 1954 to devote all his time to writing.
Jacques Chessex (1934), Ursula Schoeni
Jacques Chessex (1934), Ursula Schoeni
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Chessex's work is largely autobiographical, replete with the theme of the defiance of death, marked by contradictions, and boldly stressing immoderate and violent feelings, and yet his language is almost classical in its restraint. In 1963 Chessex was awarded the Schiller Prize and in 1973 the Goncourt Prize.
Robert Otto Walser (1878-1956), Herbert L. Kaufman
Robert Otto Walser (1878-1956), Herbert L. Kaufman
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Walser, Robert Otto (1878-1956), Swiss feuilletonist novelist, and short-story writer, was born in Biel, canton Bern, the seventh of eight children. He left school at the age of 14 and worked for most of his life as a clerk in such places as Zurich, Wädenswil, Thun, Solothurn, Basel, and Stuttgart. After Walser's first book, Fritz Kochers Aufsätze (1904; Fritz Kocher's Essays) was published, he lived for some years with his brother Karl in Berlin.
Emil Staiger (1908), Marianne Burkhard
Emil Staiger (1908), Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Staiger, Emil (1908-), Swiss literary critic and translator was born in Kreuzlingen, canton Thurgau. For many years he was professor of German literature at the University of Zurich. Staiger gave new impulses to German literary criticism through comprehensive interpretations of individual works and a theoretical consideration of literature in connection with the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
Jakob Schaffner (1875-1944), Hans Bänziger
Jakob Schaffner (1875-1944), Hans Bänziger
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Schaffner, Jakob (1875-1944), Swiss novelist and political essayist, was born in Basel and orphaned at an early age. A distressing picture of his childhood and the years he spent in "Demutt" (Beuggen), a religiously oriented orphanage near Basel, can be found in his most famous novel, Johannes (1922). This novel has been praised as the best Swiss educational novel since Gottfried Keller's Der grüne Heinrich, and for it Schaffner won the 1930 Swiss Schiller Prize. Schaffner. eventually became a shoemaker. He described his experiences as an apprentice in Basel in the novel Die Jünglingszeit des Johannes Schattenhold (1930; The …
Jürg Federspiel (1931), Rolf Kieser
Jürg Federspiel (1931), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Federspiel, Jürg (1931-), Swiss novelist, poet, and short-story writer, was born in Winterthur, Zurich canton. His first book is a collection of short stories entitled Orangen und Tode (1961; Oranges and Deaths). This title signals the author's obsession with the principles of life and death, which, in his work, frequently take the form of an ardent, often violent dialogue between them. "I am a sensuous man," he maintains. "If there are no oranges anymore, I am for death. Mine."
Albert Béguin (1901-1957), Suzanne Nalbantian
Albert Béguin (1901-1957), Suzanne Nalbantian
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Béguin, Albert (1901-57), Swiss critic, translator, and editor, was born into a family of agnostic educators in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Neuchâtel canton. In his formative years, Béguin was attracted to the nonorthodox spiritual quality of such Catholic writers as Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Although Béguin eventually became a socialist dedicated to humanitarian concerns, his critical works usually emphasize the mystical aspects of literature. Béguin received his license in literature at the University of Geneva, and in 1925 he moved to Paris, where he was exposed to the ideological ferment of the era but was personally unable to adopt …
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Rolf Kieser
Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Rolf Kieser
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich (1921-), Swiss playwright, novelist, and essayist, was born in Konolfingen, canton Bern. He is Switzerland's most important playwright and one of the most accomplished dramatists in the succession of Bertolt Brecht. A student of philosophy and theology, Dürrenmatt experimented with short stories reminiscent of Franz Kafka. In 1947 he created his first theater scandal with the chaotic drama Es steht geschrieben (It Is Written), a combination of street ballad and religious comic strip. After the failure of Der Blinde (1948; The Blind Man), an allegorical drama in which the struggle between nihilism and faith ends with the victory …
Giuseppe Zoppi (1896-1952), Hermann W. Haller
Giuseppe Zoppi (1896-1952), Hermann W. Haller
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
Zoppi, Giuseppe (1896-1952), Swiss poet, short-story writer, novelist, and essayist, was born in Broglio, canton Ticino. Zoppi left his beloved mountains at the age of 11 to enter a religious school near Ascona. He later studied at the University of Fribourg, graduating in 1920 with a thesis on the poetry of Francesco Chiesa. After teaching at gymnasiums in places such as Sankt Gallen, Lugano, and Locarno, Zoppi became professor of Italian literature at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1931.
The Emigration Of Soren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
The Emigration Of Soren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
The Bridge
John and Jane Doe, USA, are pretty well aware that Denmark exports the best butter, bacon, and cheese in the world to the world. But perhaps not even Jens and Tina Jensen, second and third generation Danish-Americans, realize the extent to which the second-to-none thoughts of a nineteenth century Dane have emigrated and are emigrating to the whole wide world . Indeed, they are valued more by the world than by Danes in Denmark, who can hardly conceal their surprise that the world now pays more attention to Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1865) than to Hans Christian Andersen . The Danes …
Books, Hans Christian Andersen, Joyce Carol Oates, Reviewer
Books, Hans Christian Andersen, Joyce Carol Oates, Reviewer
The Bridge
"I am as water," Hans Christian Andersen wrote in a letter of 1855. "Everything moves me. Everything is reflected in me. I suppose it is part of my writer's nature, and often I have had pleasure and blessing from it, but it is often also a torment."
A Short History Of The Life Of N. J. Blagen
A Short History Of The Life Of N. J. Blagen
The Bridge
In 1920 the Danish immigrant Niels Jensen Blagen looked back on his long, vigorous life, fifty years of which had been spent in the United States, and composed the autobiographical sketch which follows . Perhaps it was characteristic of N. J. Blagen that, as a man of action, he did not spend more time than he did recounting his remarkable career as a builder and lumberman in the Pacific Northwest. In an English that sometimes betrays through unusual phrasing the writer's foreign origin, Blagen takes the reader from 1850 and Rabylille on the island of M0n to 1920 and Portland, …