Die Schweiz. Eine Schilderung der merkwürdigsten Stellen des Landes und der Hauptmomente ihrer Geschichte, von Julius Loewenberg.

Title

Die Schweiz. Eine Schilderung der merkwürdigsten Stellen des Landes und der Hauptmomente ihrer Geschichte, von Julius Loewenberg.

Description

Copper print book describes Swizerland with 1 title page, foreword and page of content, tex pages from 1 - 224 in german language. With steelprints( lake Geneve), 4 copper aquatinta (Jungfrau Gebirge, Staubach, Aar-Brücke, Teufelsbrücke), on map ( ballte of Murten) one folding map of Swizerland and the mountains frofile.

ca. 1870

Artist

Löwenberg (1800-1893)

Julius Löwenberg ( 1800 - 1893 ) was a German geographer and author, friend and bibliographer of Alexander von Humboldt.As part of Karl Christian Bruhns' biography of Alexander von Humboldt, Löwenberg compiled a bibliography of all the publications of the famous naturalist. He wrote a large number of mainly geographical books and travelogues and wrote numerous geographical and literary articles for a number of journals, conversation encyclopedias, as well as for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.

Historical Description

Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal state of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.The early history of the region is tied to that of Alpine culture. Switzerland was inhabited by Gauls and Raetians, and it came under Roman rule in the 1st century BC. Gallo-Roman culture was amalgamated with Germanic influence during Late Antiquity, with the eastern part of Switzerland becoming Alemannic territory. The area of Switzerland was incorporated into the Frankish Empire in the 6th century. In the high medieval period, the eastern part became part of the Duchy of Swabia within the Holy Roman Empire while the western part was part of Burgundy.