Here are posts labelled "Switzerland" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Gottfried Keller
- Birth: July 19, 1819, Zürich, Switzerland
- Death: July 15, 1890, Zürich, Switzerland
- Language: German
- Who he was: Swiss poet and novelist who wrote (in German) Green Henry and The Banner of the Upright Seven
- Included in lists (What's This?): HCF, Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Karl Barth
- Birth: May 10, 1886, Basel, Switzerland
- Death: December 10, 1968, Basel, Switzerland
- Language: German
- Who he was: Swiss theologian; The Epistle to the Romans; Church Dogmatics
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Carl Gustav Jung
- Birth: July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland
- Death: June 6, 1961, Küsnacht, Switzerland
- Language: German
- Who he was: German-speaking Swiss psychiatrist; Psychology of the Unconscious; Symbols of Transformation; Man and His Symbols; Memories, Dreams, Reflections; Seven Sermons to the Dead; Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
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Just the Facts:
- Name: René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
- Known as: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Birth: December 4, 1875, Prague, Czech Republic
- Death: December 29, 1926, Montreux, Switzerland
- Language: German
- Who he was: Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist; poetry collections Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies) and Die Sonette an Orpheus (Sonnets to Orpheus); novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge); and a collection of Letters to a Young Poet
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Hermann Hesse
- Birth: July 2, 1877, Calw, Germany
- Death: August 9, 1962, Montagnola, Switzerland
- Language: German
- Who he was: German-born Swiss poet and novelist; Steppenwolf; Siddhartha; The Glass Bead Game; Nobel Prize in Literature (1946)
- Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Birth: June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland
- Death: July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France
- Language: French
- Who he was: Swiss ("Genevan") philosopher; Émile, or Treatise on Education (includes "Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar"); Confessions; Social Contract; A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 3); LRP; HC; Bloom
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| by Hans Holbein the Younger |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
- Known as: Erasmus; Erasmus of Rotterdam; Desiderius Erasmus
- Birth: October 27, 1466, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Death: July 12, 1536, Basel, Switzerland
- Language: Latin; Dutch
- Who he was: Dutch scholar; The Praise of Folly
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); Bloom
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Ulrich (or Huldrych) Zwingli
- Birth: January 1, 1484, Wildhaus, Switzerland
- Death: October 11, 1531, Kappel am Albis, Switzerland
- Language: German, Latin
- Who he was: Swiss Reform Theologian whose collected works are expected to fill 21 volumes; one work popular in English is The Christian Education of Youth
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| by Jakob Emanuel Handmann |
Just the Facts:
- Name: Leonhard Euler
- Birth: April 15, 1707, Basel, Switzerland
- Death: September 18, 1783, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Language: German; Latin
- Who he was: Swiss mathematician and scientist who wrote Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie (Letters to a German Princess, On Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy); also, science and math texts
- Included in lists (What's This?): GGB, HC
Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!
Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!
