Jakob Albrecht, Jos. Anton Henne, & Werner Manz - Sargans, Switzerland
N 47° 02.962 E 009° 26.264
32T E 533247 N 5210743
This memorial honors three dead poets from Sargans, Switzerland.
Waymark Code: WMMHG5
Location: St. Gallen, Switzerland
Date Posted: 09/22/2014
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The memorial consists of a bronze plaque with bas reliefs of the three men on it as well as the following text (in German):
Jakob Albrecht 1827-1897 Lyriker und Sarganser mundart dichter
Jos. Anton Henne 1798-1870 Dichter-historiker verfasser des liedes luegid vo berg und tal
Werner Manz 1882-1954 Forscher für volks kunde im Sarganser land
[English Translation]
Jakob Albrecht 1827-1897 poet and Sarganser dialect poet
Jos. Anton Henne 1798-1870 poet-historian writer of the song Luegid vo Berg und Tal
Werner Manz 1882-1954 researcher for country folk ornithology in Sarganser
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Additional information about these three men follows:
Jakob Albrecht, born 17 February 1827, died 26 March 1897 in Sargans. A journalist, cartoonist and dialect poet, among other things for the "Nebelspalter", the "Post Hiri" and various newspapers.
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Josef Anton Henne, known as Anton Henne, born 22 July 1798 in Sargans, died 22 November 1870 in Wolfhalden, Appenzell. Was a Swiss historian and politician active during the formative phase of the modern Swiss state. In 1828, he published the first volume of a popular History of Switzerland (covering the period up to 1400). The second and third volumes of his History of Switzerland appeared in 1834 and 1835. He published two volumes of a planned world history in nine volumes in 1845.
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Werner Manz, also from Sargans, wrote Volksbrauch und Volksglaube des Sarganserlandes (about folk customs and folk beliefs of the Sarganserland) in: Writings of the Swiss Society of Ethnography, Basel, Volume 12, (1916), as well as Beiträge zur Ethnographie des Sarganserlandes (Contributions to the Ethnography of the Sarganserland) in: Annual Reports of the Geographical-Ethnographical Society in Zurich, Volume 13 (1912-1913).
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