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2 unusual facts about canton of Glarus


Académie Ranson

In 1931, Marie-France Ranson handed over the management of the Academy to Harriet Von Tschudi Cérésole, a student and sculptor, originally from the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland.

Fridolin of Säckingen

On his death Urso left his enormous lands, now the Canton of Glarus, to Fridolin, who founded numerous churches dedicated to Saint Hilarius (the origin of the name "Glarus").


Anna Göldi

Göldi at first escaped arrest, but the authorities of the Canton of Glarus advertised a reward for her capture in the Zürcher Zeitung on February 9, 1782.

Beresinalied

The context is that Oberleutnant Thomas Legler, (1782-1835, born in Glarus) who served in the II corps of Marshal Nicolas Oudinot in Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion army in Russia in his memoirs Denkwürdigkeiten aus dem russischen Feldzug tells how his commander during the Battle on 28 November 1812 reminded him of the song and asked him to sing it.

Burkat Shudi

He was born in Schwanden in the Canton of Glarus, and arrived in England in 1718, where he started work as a joiner.

Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland

Eleven other cantonal branches have been founded, predominantly in German-speaking Switzerland: Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, Fribourg, Glarus, Lucerne, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Valais, and Zürich.

Emil Brunner

He studied at the universities of Zurich and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in theology from Zurich in 1913, with a dissertation on The Symbolic Element in Religious Knowledge. Brunner served as pastor from 1916 to 1924 in the mountain village of Obstalden in the Swiss Canton of Glarus.


see also

Engi

Engi, Switzerland, a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland

Linthal

Linthal, Glarus, a settlement in the upper valley of the Linth river, in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland

Peter Britt

When Peter Britt was born in Obstalden in the Swiss canton of Glarus, his family farmed land that had been in the family for centuries.

Schwändi

Schwändi, Glarus, a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Glarus