Baron Christoph Von Graffenried´s
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Baron Christoph Von Graffenried´s: New Bern Adventures The following study of the origin and incipient history of one of the early German settlements in America presents the introduction to a critical edition of hitherto unpublished German and French documents left by Baron von Graffenried which I have prepared for the North Carolina Historical Commission and which will be published in the near future. In this edition there will appear also the philological apparatus consisting of notes and a glossary of the many unusual words contained in the documents. My interest in the history of the German settlements of this country goes back to my boyhood days in Pennsylvania where I knew many of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch people. No one among my American acquaintances, however, seemed to know much about them, nor could I learn anything concerning them from the school books on American history which were then used in the public schools. The best information I could get was that these people were descended from Hessian soldiers who had remained in America after the Revolutionary War. When later my scientific interest in the history of the Germans in America was aroused by the lectures of Professor Julius Goebel at Harvard University and afterwards at the University of Illinois, I continued to make inquiries in order to learn whether others had had experiences similar to my own in seeking to find out more concerning this important ethnic element of our nation. To my astonishment I found that the story of the German settlements was little known even among teachers of American history, despite the fact that in recent years much has been done in this field and that the story itself is as important and interesting as many stories with which we are more familiar. In conclusion I wish to acknowledge my gratitude to the members of the German and French departments of the University of Illinois, and to Professor Julius Goebel especially, for kindly advice and encouragement. It was at his suggestion and under his direction that I undertook this study for which he put at my disposal the rich manuscript material which has collected on the Graffenried episode. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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