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Johann Stumpf (writer)
Johann Stumpf (23 April 1500 – c. 1578) was an early writer on the history and topography of Switzerland as well as a theologian and cartographer. Biography He was born at Bruchsal (near Karlsruhe), and was educated there and at Strasbourg and Heidelberg. In 1520 he became a cleric or chaplain in the order of the Knights Hospitaller. He was sent in 1521 to the preceptory of that order at Freiburg im Breisgau, ordained a priest at Basel, and in 1522 was placed in charge of the preceptory at Bubikon (north of Rapperswil (SG), in the canton of Zürich). However, Stumpf went over to the Protestants, was present at the Bern Disputation (1528), and took part in the first Kappel War (1529). In 1529 he married the first of his four wives, a daughter of Heinrich Brennwald, who wrote a work (still in manuscript) on Swiss history, and stimulated his son-in-law to undertake historical studies. Stumpf made wide researches, with this object, for many years, and undertook also s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stumpf Portrait
Stumpf or Stumpff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Lena Stumpf, German-Australian artist * Bill Stumpf (1936–2006), American furniture designer * Bill Stumpf (baseball) (1892–1966), American baseball player *Carl Stumpf (1848–1936), German philosopher and psychologist * Christian Stumpf (born 1966), Austrian football player * Daniel Stumpf (born 1991), American baseball player * Daniela Stumpf (born 1965), German football player * Eddie Stumpf (1894–1978), American baseball player, manager and executive * Georg Stumpf (born 1972), Austrian entrepreneur * George Stumpf (1910–1993), American baseball player *Horst Stumpff (1887–1958), German general in World War II *Hulda Stumpf (1867–1930), American Christian missionary in Kenya *István Stumpf (born 1957), Hungarian politician *Johann Andreas Stumpff (1769–1846), German maker of harps and pianos, resident in London * Johann Stumpf (engineer), German steam locomotive engineer *John Stumpf (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapperswil (SG)
Rapperswil (Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005, , p. 727. short: ''Rappi'') is a former municipality and since January 2007 part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, located between '' Obersee'' and the main part of Lake Zurich. Geography Rapperswil is located on the northern shore of Lake Zurich at the point at which the lake is cut in two by the Seedamm isthmus, which is an ice age moraine. The upper (or eastern) part of Lake Zurich is called '' Obersee''. Part of the old town, the castle and monastery are situated on a peninsula. Sights The town's main sights ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unterstammheim
Unterstammheim is a former municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Oberstammheim, Unterstammheim and Waltalingen merged into the new municipality of Stammheim. Geography Unterstammheim has an area of . Of this area, 52.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 36.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 10.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.4%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Demographics Unterstammheim has a population (as of ) of . , 7.0% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has decreased at a rate of -0.3%. Most of the population () speaks German (96.1%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.8%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.6%). In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.7% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CSP (16. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberstammheim
Oberstammheim is a former municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History In 2009, archaeologists announced the discovery of an Iron Age (late Hallstatt or early La Tène) tumulus burial, apparently of a Celtic nobleman. While there are comparable finds in Germany, the site is unique in Switzerland. NZZ 21 August 2009. Oberstammheim is first mentioned in 761 as ''Stamhaim''. In 1212 it was mentioned as ''in Stamehein superiori''. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Oberstammheim, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (2 August 1672 – 23 June 1733) was a Swiss physician and natural scientist born in Zürich. His most famous work was the ''Physica sacra'' in four volumes, which was a commentary on the Bible and included his view of the world, demonstrating a convergence of science and religion. It was richly illustrated with copperplate etchings and came to be called the ''Kupfer-Bibel'' or "Copper Bible". Scheuchzer supported Biblical creation, but his support for Copernican heliocentrism forced him to print his works outside Switzerland. He also supported antecedent concepts of Neptunism and considered fossils as evidence for the Biblical deluge. A fossil from Ohningen that he identified as a human drowned by the Flood was later identified as a Miocene salamander which was named after him as '' Andrias scheuchzeri.'' Life and career The son of the namesake senior town physician (''Archiater'') of Zürich and Barbara Fäsi, daughter of the principal of the Lati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valais
Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion, Switzerland, Sion. Valais is situated in the southwestern part of the country. It borders the cantons of Canton of Vaud, Vaud and Canton of Bern, Bern to the north, the cantons of Canton of Uri, Uri and Ticino to the east, as well as Italy to the south and France to the west. It is one of the three large southern Alps, Alpine cantons, along with Ticino and Grisons. It is a bilingual canton, French and German being its two official languages. Traditionally, the canton is divided into Lower, Central, and Upper Valais, the latter region constituting the German-speaking minority. Valais is essentially coextensive with the valley of the Rhône from its headwaters to Lake Geneva, separating the Pennine Alps from the Bernese Alps, the two largest mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engelberg
Engelberg (lit.: ''mountain of angel(s)'') is a village resort and a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Obwalden in Switzerland. Alongside the central village of Engelberg, the municipality encompasses additional settlements, including Grafenort, Oberberg and Schwand. The municipality of Engelberg is an exclave, entirely encircled by the neighboring cantons of Canton of Bern, Bern, Canton of Nidwalden, Nidwalden and Canton of Uri, Uri. Engelberg is a mountain resort in Central Switzerland. In the Middle Ages, the area garnered recognition for its Benedictine monastery, known as Engelberg Abbey. As time progressed, particularly from the 19th century onwards, Engelberg became a well-known mountain resort. The city of Lucerne serves as the nearest major urban center. While the official language of Engelberg is Swiss Swiss Standard German, German, the predominant spoken language is the local variation of the Alemannic German, Alem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Brennwald
Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Heinrich (crater), a lunar crater * Heinrich-Hertz-Turm, a telecommunication tower and landmark of Hamburg, Germany Other uses * Heinrich event, a climatic event during the last ice age * Heinrich (card game), a north German card game * Heinrich (farmer), participant in the German TV show a ''Farmer Wants a Wife'' * Heinrich Greif Prize, an award of the former East German government * Heinrich Heine Prize, the name of two different awards * Heinrich Mann Prize, a literary award given by the Berlin Academy of Art * Heinrich Tessenow Medal, an architecture prize established in 1963 * Heinrich Wieland Prize, an annual award in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry and physiology * Heinrich, known as Haida in Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stumpf Swiss Woodblock
Stumpf or Stumpff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Lena Stumpf, German-Australian artist *Bill Stumpf (1936–2006), American furniture designer * Bill Stumpf (baseball) (1892–1966), American baseball player *Carl Stumpf (1848–1936), German philosopher and psychologist * Christian Stumpf (born 1966), Austrian football player * Daniel Stumpf (born 1991), American baseball player * Daniela Stumpf (born 1965), German football player *Eddie Stumpf (1894–1978), American baseball player, manager and executive * Georg Stumpf (born 1972), Austrian entrepreneur * George Stumpf (1910–1993), American baseball player *Horst Stumpff (1887–1958), German general in World War II *Hulda Stumpf (1867–1930), American Christian missionary in Kenya *István Stumpf (born 1957), Hungarian politician *Johann Andreas Stumpff (1769–1846), German maker of harps and pianos, resident in London * Johann Stumpf (engineer), German steam locomotive engineer *John Stumpf (born 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bern Disputation
The Bern Disputation was a debate over the theology of the Swiss Reformation that occurred in Bern from 6 to 26 January 1528 that ended in Bern becoming the second Swiss canton to officially become Protestant. Background As the reformation in Zürich progressed in the 1520s, the surrounding Swiss cantons were also affected. Bern was the capital of the Swiss Confederacy and was "the largest, most conservative and aristocratic of the Swiss cantons" at the time. The early Protestant movement spearheaded by Martin Luther had an effect on Bern as early as 1518, and Protestant teaching was being debated in Bern by 1522. By 1523, Protestants already held significant posts in Bern, including artist Niklaus Manuel and preacher Berchtold Haller. Disputations with Luther and his followers had already occurred in different parts of Germany, and Switzerland had also already been home to the Zürich Disputations that saw Zürich officially become Protestant in January of 1524. The Baden D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
