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Louise Odin
Louise Odin (1836–1909), was a Swiss linguist, dialect researcher and author of a glossary detailing the dialect of her native village of Blonay, Switzerland. The local dialect was already declining in use when she began her work. Biography Susanne Louise Sophie Pilliod was born on 14 March 1836 in the Vaudois village of Blonay, the daughter of Jean François Pilliod and Marie Antoinette, née Bonjour. Before her marriage, she was a teacher in Germany and Russia. She married André-Martin Odin, a German. When her husband died in 1868, she returned with her two children to her hometown above Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Odin studied the local dialect of Blonay all her life. For half a century, she wrote down, phonetically, the words and stories of the French Provençal dialect, known as patois. Her large text, ''Glossaire du patois de Blonay'', contained no fewer than 12,000 entries, and there are no less than 500 sayings and phrases, and stories, things from local everyday life, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blonay
Blonay () is a former municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Blonay and Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz merged into the new municipality of Blonay - Saint-Légier. History Blonay is first mentioned in 861 as ''Blodennaco''. In 1108 it was mentioned as ''Bloniaco''. During the 13th Century it was known as ''Blonay'', ''Blonai'' and ''Blunai''. Geography Blonay has an area, , of . Of this area, or 33.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 46.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 18.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 2.0% is unproductive land.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1836 Births
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19th-century Swiss Women Writers
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Writers
Swiss most commonly refers to: * the adjectival form of Switzerland *Swiss people Swiss may also refer to: Places * Swiss, Missouri * Swiss, North Carolina * Swiss, West Virginia * Swiss, Wisconsin Other uses * Swiss Café, an old café located in Baghdad, Iraq *Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports * Swiss International Air Lines **Swiss Global Air Lines, a subsidiary *Swissair, former national air line of Switzerland * .swiss alternative TLD for Switzerland See also *Swiss made, label for Swiss products *Swiss cheese (other) *Switzerland (other) *Languages of Switzerland, none of which are called "Swiss" *International Typographic Style, also known as Swiss Style, in graphic design *Schweizer (other), meaning Swiss in German *Schweitzer Schweitzer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), German theologian, musician, physician, and medical missionary, winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Priz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Switzerland or whose writings are closely associated with that country. B * Elisabeth Baumgartner (1889–1957), Swiss author of play is Bernese German dialect * Béatrix Beck (1914–2008), Swiss-born Belgian writing in French, novelist *Maja Beutler (1936–2021), German-language novelist, short story writer, playwright * S. Corinna Bille (1912–1979), short story writer, poet, novelist, children's writer * Teresina Bontempi (1883–1968), Italian-language Swiss journalist, editor * Irena Brežná (born 1950), Slovak-Swiss writer, journalist, activist * Erika Burkart (1922–2010), German language poet, short story writer, novelist * Martha Burkhardt (1874–1958), Swiss-born travel writer C * Dominique Caillat (born 1956), playwright, non-fiction writer, works in German, French and English * Corinne Chaponnière (born 1954), Swiss-Canadian writer * Anne Cuneo (1936–2015), French-language novelist, journalist, screenwriter * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District
The term "the people" refers to the public or Common people, common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of Person, persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independence, independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Deaths
Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across drift ice, ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition, ''Nimrod'' Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the Farthest South, farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies. * January 11 – The International Joint Commission on US-Canada boundary waters is established. * January 16 – Members of the ''Nimrod'' Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect). * January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic (1903), RMS ''Republic'' sinks the day after a collision with ''SS Florida'' off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued. * January 28 – The last United States t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Geneva
Lake Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the List of largest lakes of Europe, largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty percent () of the lake belongs to Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud, Canton of Geneva, Geneva and Valais) and forty percent () to France (the department of Haute-Savoie). Name While the exact origins of the name are unknown, the name was in use during the time of Julius Caesar. comes from Ancient Greek () meaning "port's lake". In Medieval Latin it was known as , although this name was also used for Lausonius Lacus, a town or district on the lake, or ; the equivalent in Old French was . Following the rise of Geneva it became (translated into English as ''Lake Geneva''), but was the common name on all local maps and is the customary name in the French language. In contemporary English language, English, the name ''Lake Geneva'' has become predo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lausanne
Lausanne ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, city of the Swiss French-speaking Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud, in Switzerland. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located (as the crow flies) northeast of Geneva, the nearest major city. The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland convenes in Lausanne, although it is not the ''de jure'' capital of the nation. The municipality of Lausanne has a population of about 140,000, making it the List of cities in Switzerland, fourth largest city in Switzerland after Basel, Geneva, and Zurich, with the entire agglomeration area having about 420,000 inhabitants (as of January 2019). The metropolitan area of Lausanne-Geneva (including Vevey-Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains, Valais and foreign parts), commonly designated as ''Lake Geneva region, Arc lémanique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charmoille, Switzerland
Charmoille is a village and a former municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Porrentruy (district), Porrentruy in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Jura (canton), Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009 it became part of the new municipality of La Baroche. References External links * Former municipalities of the canton of Jura {{JuraCH-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
