People from Graubunden - Alberto Giacometti, H. R. Giger, Angelica Kauffmann, Carl Ruedi, Nino Niederreiter, Carlo Janka, Philip Schaff (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Alberto Giacometti, H. R. Giger, Angelica Kauffmann, Carl Ruedi, Nino Niederreiter, Carlo Janka, Philip Schaff, Andres Ambuhl, Marc Forster, Leonhard Ragaz, Paul ten Bruggencate, Gimma, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Giorgio Rocca, Joseph Planta, Giovanni Andrea Scartazzini, Dorothea Wieck, Gaudenz Canova, Diego Giacometti, Eduard Imhof, Corina Casanova, Guido Fanconi, Ernst Haefliger, Lucius Ruedi, Adolfo Kind, Toni Ruttimann, Enrico Zuccalli, Giovanni Giacometti, Bruno Giacometti, Gian-Franco Kasper, Luca Denicola, Thierry Paterlini, Anny Ruegg, David Gervasi, Nino Schurter, Ferdinand Cattini, Hans Gmur. Excerpt: Carl Ruedi (April 21 (or 23?), 1848 - June 17, 1901) was a Swiss pulmonologist and at his lifetime one of the best-known physicians in Graubunden. Ruedi rose to fame around the world after having treated the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in the winters of 1880-81 and 1881-82. Stevenson praised Ruedi in the dedication of his poetry collection Underwoods (1887) as "the good genius of the English in his frosty mountains." Carl Ruedi was the youngest of eight children of the Graubunden district doctor and pioneer of climatotherapy Lucius Ruedi and his wife Rahel (nee Conrad). Yet in early childhood Carl Ruedi excelled himself by physical fitness, liveliness and intelligence. At the tender age of four Carl hiked with his father in midsummer from Alvaneu (the family's residence) to Davos (Carl's birthplace) 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) away. When Carl was nine of age, he and two of his brothers who attended the cantonal school at Chur, hiked 55 kilometers (34.2 miles) from Chur to Davos on one day. In 1866 Carl Ruedi enrolled at the University of Tubingen to study Protestant theology. In the summer of 1867 Ruedi continued his study at the University of Zurich . Carl's elder brother Wilhelm had been living as a phys...