Jacob Burckhardt, European Satire, parody and wit in Basel

18 April 2019

The famous Swiss historian Jacob Christian Burckhardt (1818-1897) was the first to analyse the use of satire, parody and wit in Renaissance Europe. Burckhardt (Weltliche Betrachtungen, posthumously published in 1905) also introduced the term Kleinstaat (Le petit état, the small state) as a reminder of the democratic qualities of Switzerland at the time of European … Read more » “Jacob Burckhardt, European Satire, parody and wit in Basel”

Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Switzerland

19 November 2018

Tadeusz Kosciuszko was born as the son of a Polish aristocratic family in 1746, in a town now part of the Republic of Belarus. He took on a career as an army officer, first in Warsaw (1765-1769) and afterwards in France (1769-1774), where he acquired his expertise as a military engineer in building military fortifications. … Read more » “Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Switzerland”

Association pro Büvetta in Scuol-Tarasp

19 October 2018

The mineral water trail (Mineralwasserweg Scuol in German or senda d’aua minerala Scuol in Romansh) consists of hiking trails in the area of Scuol, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent in Lower Engadine (Unterengadin, canton Graubünden). Information is provided in two languages (Romansh and German. (Source and further information: www.mineralquellen-scuol.ch). More than twenty springs bubble from the … Read more » “Association pro Büvetta in Scuol-Tarasp”