Peider Lansel
Peider Lansel ( born August 15, 1863 in Pisa, † December 8, 1943 in Geneva) has been engaged as a poet, essayist and political propagandist quasi throughout his life for the preservation and recognition of Romansh. During more than thirty years he has written several poetry collections and edited consuming, published various essays and lectures and worried as the publisher some complete works editions of other writers. For his commitment to the Romansh language and culture, he was honored in 1933 by the University of Zurich with the " doctor honoris causa " and ten years later honored for his poetic work with the Great Schiller price.
Life
Childhood and youth
Peider Lansel was born on August 15, 1863 in Pisa, as a firstborn son ( of five sons and two daughters ) of Andri Töna Lansel from Sent ( 1831-1900 ) and the Emilia Steiner from Lavin ( 1837-1901 ). Andri Lansel had in Pisa founded a branch of the family business in Florence.
Peider Lansel grew up until the age of nine in Pisa, he spent the summer as most migrants in the Engadine. He attended school in Sent and the district school in Chur. The training was completed by the commercial school Frauenfeld and spending a year in role VD. About 1879, at age 16, he joined as an apprentice in the operations of the families Könz and Lansel in Arezzo and Livorno. When his father retired from the shops, in returning to Switzerland, Peider Lansel took over his father's business at age 21 in Pisa, and led it with success. After a few years he left the business but more or less his brothers Emil and Andri.
Return to Switzerland
In 1893 he married Emma Curdin ( Corradini ) from Sent. They had four children together in Pisa ( the first-born daughter Erica died annual, followed by Erica (II ), Bignia and Andri Albert). In 1906, at age 43, Lansel definitely returned with his family back to Switzerland, first to Sent and then for the further education of the children to Geneva. However Lansel still spent many months in the Engadine and go. From that time on he devoted himself almost exclusively to the study of Roman culture and his work as a poet.
Lansel as voice fighters and sponsors
Through his writings he campaigned for a renaissance of Romansh. Great importance and attention given its linguistic essays in defense of Romansh against irredentist writings from Italy, which degraded the Romanesque to a Lombard dialect, demanding the inclusion of the Roman territories to the Italian territory.
Lansel led lively correspondence with figures such as the Federal Philipp Etter, Gonzague de Reynold, Frédéric Mistral, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss Consul General in Italy Georges Wagnière, Giulio Bertoni, Giorgio Del Vecchio, Carl Spitteler, Edgar Piguet and others. His villa on Rue Toepffer in Geneva was a meeting place for many students, young and established writers, intellectuals and artists such as Otto Barblan and Henri de Ziegler.
In 1911 Lansel founded with Father Otto Gaudenzdorfer the Chalender Ladin, an annually published almanac. He has long been an active participant and supporter of this official organ of the Uniun dals Grischs, which still bears on the cover of his motto: " Tanter Ruman Tschs, be rumantsch! Under Romansh Romansh only ". By the time he has put together an important collection of ancient Roman manuscripts and books. At the Swiss National Exhibition of 1914 in Berne he exhibited in a showcase of various documents and objects from his personal collection.
Lansel as a collector
Peider Lansel was also an avid collector of Roman folk songs. With an imported from America phonograph Edison company he took 1912-1915 over three hundred folk songs to the Engadine, the Munster and Berguen. He was also a pioneer of photography in the Engadine and animated also famous photographers such as Rudolf Zinggeler capture the life and customs of the Engadine in photographs. From the estate Lansels 75 Edison wax cylinders with the music recordings and 371 glass plates are stored with the photographs in the Library of Fundaziun de Planta in Samedan.
Swiss consul in Italy
In 1926, already dreiundsechzigjährig, Lansel was forced after the death of his brother Oscar Corradini and his twenty-six son Andri Albert return to the stores to Italy. He settled with his wife and his widowed daughter Erica in Livorno. From 1927 to 1934 he was in a politically turbulent time Swiss consul in Livorno. In 1934 he returned to Switzerland definitely back ..
Retirement and Awards
1933 awarded him the University of Zurich for his seventieth birthday for his outstanding contribution to the cause of the Romansh doctor honoris causa. On his eightieth birthday he the Big Schiller Prize was awarded as the first Romansh. A few months later he died. His estate is located in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.