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Robert Faesi
Robert Faesi (; 10 April 1883, Zürich10 September 1972, Zollikon) was a Swiss writer and academic concerned with German studies, Literature and language. Life Son of the businessman Heinrich Friedrich Faesi, Robert Faesi was born into a well established and affluent Zürich family. After Matura, successfully completing his schooling, he initially studied Jurisprudence, Law, before switching to German studies. In 1907 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, a nineteenth century poet-theologian. Faesi then took a position as a high school teacher in Zürich, also undertaking several extended Cultural tourism, educational tours, before ending up in 1911 at the University of Zurich where he was appointed, in 1922, "extraordinary" professor for the history of modern Swiss and German literature. Further distinctions and promotions followed at the university, and in 1953, he was nominated an Emeritus, emeritus professor. From his perspective as a Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Menuett
A minuet (; also spelled menuet) is a social dance of French origin for two people, usually written in time. The English word was adapted from the Italian ''minuetto'' and the French ''menuet''. The term also describes the musical form that accompanies the dance, which subsequently developed more fully, often with a longer musical form called the minuet and trio, and was much used as a movement in the early classical symphony. While often stylized in instrumental forms, composers of the period would have been familiar with the popular dance. Dance The name may refer to the short steps, ''pas menus'', taken in the dance, or else be derived from the ''branle à mener'' or ''amener'', popular group dances in early 17th-century France. The minuet was traditionally said to have descended from the ''bransle de Poitou'', though there is no evidence making a clear connection between these two dances. The earliest treatise to mention the possible connection of the name to the exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonzague De Reynold
Gonzague de Reynold (15 June 1880 – 9 April 1970) was a Swiss writer, historian, and right-wing political activist. Over the course of his six-decade career, he wrote more than thirty books outlining his traditionalist Catholic and Swiss nationalist worldview. De Reynold won the Schiller Prize in 1955. With René de Weck and Léon Savary, he formed the ''troika'' of Fribourg writers of the early twentieth century. Life A member of the minor Fribourgeois nobility, de Reynold was born at his family's sixteenth-century chateau in Cressier. He studied at Collège Saint-Michel, the Sorbonne, and the Institut Catholique de Paris before returning to Switzerland to teach philosophy and French literature at the University of Bern and the University of Fribourg. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Consistently "sceptical of liberal democracy and scathing about modernity in all its forms", de Reynold devoted his life to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Wille
Conrad Ulrich Sigmund Wille (5 April 1848 – 31 January 1925) was a Swiss military officer who served as General of the Swiss Army during the First World War. Inspired by the Prussian techniques that he had been able to observe at the time of his studies in Berlin, he attempted to impress the Swiss Army with a spirit based on instruction, discipline and technical control. Early life and family Wille was born on 5 April 1848 in Hamburg, Germany to journalist (1811–1896) and novelist (née Sloman, 1809–1893). The Wille family was originally from La Sagne in Neuchâtel, a French-speaking Swiss canton. One of his ancestors, Henri Vuille (1714–1760), moved to Germany and altered the family name to the more German "Wille". François Wille, a radical democrat, was elected to the Frankfurt National Assembly during the German revolutions of 1848–1849. Wille's family left Hamburg after the revolution's failure, settling in Switzerland in 1851. Wille grew up in ''Mariafeld' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Ernst (German Writer)
Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst (7 March 1866, Elbingerode – 13 May 1933, Styria) was a German writer, dramatist, critic and journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis .... External links Paul Ernst Society''(German)'' * * 1866 births 1933 deaths People from Oberharz am Brocken People from the Kingdom of Hanover German male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German male writers 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights {{Germany-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Burkhard
Willy Burkhard (17 April 1900 – 18 June 1955) was a Swiss composer and academic teacher, influential in both capacities. He taught music theory at the Berne Conservatory and the Zürich Conservatory. His works include an opera, oratorios, cantatas, and many instrumental genres from piano pieces to symphonies. Life Burkhard was born in Evilard, Canton of Bern. He attended and graduated from a teachers' training college . He also study with Ernst Graf, organist at the Berner Münster. He moved to Leipzig to study piano with Robert Teichmüller and composition with Sigfrid Karg-Elert. After Leipzig, he moved on to Munich to study with Walter Courvoisier and later to Paris to work with Max d'Ollone. From 1924, he began teaching composition, theory and the piano in Berne. He was appointed professor at the in 1928. He conducted several choirs and small orchestras there. In 1932 he was struck with tuberculosis, and was compelled to live for several years in Montana and Davos. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremias Gotthelf
Albert Bitzius (4 October 179722 October 1854) was a Swiss novelist, best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf. Biography Bitzius was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. The Bitzius family had once belonged to the Bernese patriciate, but was known for its craftsmen and pastors since the 17th century. In 1804, the family home was moved to Utzenstorf, a village in the Bernese Emmental. Here young Bitzius grew up, receiving his early education and consorting with the boys of the village, as well as helping his father to cultivate his glebe. In 1812 he went to complete his education at Bern. He was a founding member of the Student Society Zofingia, the second-oldest fraternity in Switzerland (founded in 1819). In 1820 he was received as a pastor. In 1821 he enrolled for a year at the University of Göttingen, but returned home in 1822 to act as his father's assistant. On his father's death (1824) he went in the same capacity to Herzogenbuchsee, and later to Bern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knittelvers
Knittelvers (also ''Knüttelvers'' or ''Knittel'') is a kind of Germanic verse meter which originated in Germany during the Middle Ages. In Knittelvers, consecutive lines rhyme pairwise (AABB) and each line has four stresses. "Strict" Knittelvers has eight or nine syllables on each line, whereas "free" Knittelvers can use more or fewer. It may be considered a form of doggerel and is sometimes called "Knüttelvers" () because of its rhythm. In German, this form of poetry was popular during the 15th and 16th centuries but rejected in the 17th before being brought back into use by Johann Christoph Gottsched in the 18th century. Form The only rule for classical Knittelvers poetry was that the use of couplet rhyme scheme. In his work ''Deutscher Versgeschichte'' (1925–1929), Andreas Heusler introduced the distinction between a strict Knittelvers (which depending on the cadence of the verse uses eight or nine syllables) and a free Knittelverse (using any count of syllables). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasperle
Kasperle, Kasper, or Kasperl (different spellings in German variants and dialects; ) is a traditional puppet character from Austria, German-speaking Switzerland and Germany. Its roots date to 17th century, and it was at times so popular that ''Kasperltheater'' was synonymous with ''puppet theater''. Kasperltheater includes various sets of puppets. In some German settings the following characters occur: Kasper, Gretel, Seppel, Grandmother, princess, king, witch, robber, and crocodile. In Austria, Kasperl usually occurs alongside Pezi (the bear), Buffi (the dragon) or Mimi (the goose), and usually Großmutter and Großvater. The older, more traditional Kasperle shows are very similar to " Mister Punch". There are also "Kasperle versions" of the Grimm and other fairy tales and of "modern fairy tales". Background Kasper (known as ''Kasperl'' in Austria and ''Kasperle'' in southern Germany) is the hero of German puppet theater. The name ''Kasper'' probably comes from the ancient Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frauenfeld
Frauenfeld (Alemannic German, Alemannic: ''Frauefäld'') is the capital of the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Canton of Thurgau, Thurgau in Switzerland. The official language of Frauenfeld is (the Swiss variety of Standard) Swiss Standard German, German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic German, Alemannic Swiss German (linguistics), Swiss German dialect. History Early history The earliest traces of human settlement are several La Tène culture, La Tène era graves to the east of Langdorf. The Switzerland in the Roman era, Roman road from Oberwinterthur (''Vitudurum'') to Pfyn ran through what is now the ''Allmend'' in Frauenfeld. Two Roman villas were discovered in Thalbach and Oberkirch. The villa seems to have become the focal point of the later settlement of Oberkirch. On the ruins of the villa, an Early Middle Ages cemetery was built, and by the 9th century, the Oberkirch church was built. Perhaps as a result of royal donation in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
