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32-466: In August 1944 Walter Robert Corti launched in the monthly magazine " Du " a call for the foundation of a village for orphans of World War II . His initial plan was to build a refuge for about 8,000 children. In 1945, the association Vereinigung Kinderdorf Pestalozzi , and after Trogen decided to donate the association 4.5 hectares of land on 3 March 1946, the foundation stone was laid on 28 April 1946. The village counted with considerable support from

64-507: A "liberal democratic foundation". Accordingly, it has traditionally adopted a free-market liberal and centre-right orientation. However, in 2014, Markus Somm (formerly an editor at the Basler Zeitung ), a more pronounced right-wing journalist, was slated to became editor-in-chief, leading to fears of a rightward shift by staff and resulting in internal protest. The internal upheaval eventually lead to Somm not taking on his role. However,

96-660: A Union of the European countries in order to maintain a peaceful Europe. He attended the congress of Christian students in 1932 and by 1934 he got in contact with the Eranos circle in Ascona , where he met with Carl Gustav Jung and Martin Buber . He would assemble a library of 30'000 volumes and donate it to the Academic Foundation for ethical studies in 1976. This donation would become

128-628: A descendent of Italian immigrants who had established themselves in the Ticino . His mother was a Christian woman from Westphalia in Germany and a former student to the evangelic Friedrich von Bodelschwingh . He attended primary school in Dübendorf , and high school at the Glarisegg  [ de ] at the shores of Lake Constance . In 1925 he graduated from the reformist boarding school Glarisegg. Through

160-461: A short time, inter alia with Swiss school classes. Worldwide, the foundation claims to support more than 400,000 children, young people and their teachers, parents and (educational) authorities in approximately 40 projects. The facilities also include a museum. 47°24′14″N 09°27′36″E  /  47.40389°N 9.46000°E  / 47.40389; 9.46000 Walter Corti Walter Robert Corti (11 September 1910 – 12 January 1990)

192-774: A total cost of €600,000 (or €0.30 per image). The result is a searchable digital archive, accessible online by subscribers and publicly on site in Zurich. The digitization was carried out by an institute of the German research organization Fraunhofer Society  – the Institute for Media Communication (since 2006, the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems  [ de ] ), headquartered in Sankt Augustin , North Rhine-Westphalia . NZZ Libro

224-600: Is a Swiss , German-language daily newspaper , published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich . The paper was founded in 1780. It has a reputation as a high-quality newspaper, as the Swiss-German newspaper of record , and for detailed reports on international affairs. One of the oldest newspapers still published, it originally appeared as Zürcher Zeitung , edited by the Swiss painter and poet Salomon Gessner , on 12 January 1780. It

256-525: Is the book publishing part of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Books have been published since 1927; since 1980, the publishing house has been run as a separate profit centre. Since 2006 the publishing house has operated under the name NZZ Libro. The publishing programme of specialist and non-fiction literature includes, among other things, political, cultural, historical, and economic books, as well as biographies and illustrated books, predominantly with

288-659: The Neue Zürcher Zeitung had a circulation of 162,330 copies. Its circulation was 169,000 copies in 2000. The circulation of the paper was 166,000 copies in 2003. The 2006 circulation of the paper was 146,729 copies. Its circulation was 139,732 copies in 2009. In 2010, the paper had a circulation of 136,894 copies. In 2002, the newspaper launched a weekend edition, NZZ am Sonntag ( NZZ on Sunday ). The weekend edition has its own editorial staff and contains more soft news and lifestyle issues than its weekday counterpart, as do most Swiss weekend newspapers. Its circulation

320-698: The Swiss University Journal championship for his article Ratio Militans for which in 1942 was awarded the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize . Following he was a high school teacher, a contributor to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and organized lectures at the psychiatric clinic Burghölzli. In 1942 he became an editor of the cultural magazine " Du " from Conzett & Huber . Under the Editor-in-Chief Arnold Kübler he

352-435: The 1930s. Only in 2005 did it add color pictures , much later than most mainstream papers. The emphasis is on international news, business, finance, and high culture. Features and lifestyle stories are kept to a minimum. Historically, the newspaper has been politically positioned close to the liberal Free Democratic Party of Switzerland since its early period. The paper's official statutes and guidelines declare it to have

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384-578: The Pestalozzi village, where he was its director until 1972. Arthur Bill and his wife hired teachers from each nation to teach children in their native language and also act as a parent over the children. In 2005 the Trogen village consisted of twelve semi-detached houses for some 120 children and families as well as economy and administrative buildings. As of 2015, throughout the year around 1,500 children and young people from Switzerland and abroad hold reunions for

416-618: The Southern Hemisphere, and since 1990 supervised children's homes in Romania. The villages own school closed in 1993 and since, the children attend schools in the surrounding municipalities. The aims of the village were reformed and its focus laid on education and intercultural communication. The fundraising is carried out mainly through fundraisers, sponsorships and legacies: In the 2000s the Foundation has invested CHF 18 million annually into

448-428: The appointment of Eric Gujer as editor-in-chief in 2015 and René Scheu as head of the feature section in 2016, as well as almost half of all contributing editors leaving the newspaper between 2015 and December 2017, marked a noticeable shift to the right, according to critics. The circulation of Neue Zürcher Zeitung was 18,100 copies in 1910. It rose to 47,500 copies in 1930 and 66,600 copies in 1950. In 1997,

480-711: The centre for ethical studies at the University of Zurich in 1989. He married Anna Bonzo, the daughter of Hungarian violinist in 1946. He was the father of three girls and one boy. The family lived from 1954 until 1964 in Zurich and from 1964 to 1988 Corti and his wife settled to Winterthur in the house of poet Hans Reinhart, who died in 1963. Corti died on 12 January 1990 in Winterthur . Neue Z%C3%BCrcher Zeitung 47°23′17″N 8°31′16″E  /  47.388°N 8.521°E  / 47.388; 8.521 The Neue Zürcher Zeitung ( NZZ ; "New Journal of Zürich")

512-538: The childhood, the baptism which he refused while fifteen years of age, the reading of the Luther Bible , the philosophies of Baruch Spinoza and Immanuel Kant had some impact on him. With nineteen years of age he became interested in the pan-idealist movement led by the Paneuropean Union of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi , becoming the president of the European youth section. The Paneuropean Union propagates

544-644: The children's village, such as Unterägeri in Zug or Zweisimmen in Bern, but eventually it was in Trogen in Appenzell where the Pestalozzi village was established on 28 April 1946. In the village, orphans from the war-torn countries were to be welcomed, in September the first children from France arrived and by the end of the year seven houses were inhabited. Corti would preside over

576-434: The establishment of an academy in which research on peace, disarmament and the sociological conditions for development would be the focus and a large library on scientific literature should have place. The academy shall have become an international settlement of scholars. His plans were met with disappointment as in 1969 Uetikon withdrew a former permission to build the academy on land of their municipality. After his death,

608-636: The fields of integration, intercultural exchange and development cooperation. As of 2012, the projects of the foundation benefited 321,000 children and adolescents in Switzerland and abroad. Arthur Bill  [ de ] began to teach at the village in 1947, assuming as its director in 1949. In 1961 he took a year off and was involved in the Swiss delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in Korea. Following he returned to

640-487: The idea to assemble a library of the knowledge of all mankind emerged. He wanted to be employed at the psychiatric clinic Burghölzli in Zurich. While studying at the University of Frankfurt 1937, shortly before graduation, he contracted tuberculosis and had to abandon his studies. Corti underwent surgery and recovered in several health facilities. In the 1940s his literary interests gained some success, in 1940 he won

672-651: The institution from 1946 to 1950 and thereafter its honorary president. In 1956 he would receive an honorary citizenship of the Pestalozzi Children's village. On 24 October 1960, the United Nations Day , he laid the foundation stone for the first international house in the Pestalozzi International Village in Sedlescombe , United Kingdom Experiences like reading news from World War I in

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704-592: The language of each nation, and were often chosen from fairy tales or songs. A strong emphasis was put into a cultural exchange with their countries of origin to enable a smooth return after the completion of their education. In the mornings the lessons were taught in their native language, in the afternoon the lessons were in German. The first children came from the nations France, Finland, Greece, Poland, Austria and Germany. In 1950, 30 children from Great Britain arrived, which were assigned two houses. From 1960, in addition to European children, war orphans from Tibet lived at

736-530: The library became part of the Centre for Ethical studies of the University of Zurich . During World War II, Walter Corti and Marie Meierhofer discussed, what solution was to be found for the homeless children in the war-torn countries. In the August issue of Du in 1944, Corti advocated in support of the establishment of a village for orphans of World War II. There were several localities that offered themselves for

768-451: The orphanage, later mostly children from Korea, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Lebanon, since 1983 also orphans from Switzerland. In 1967 a house for prayer open to all religions was built with funds from the British royal family . The length of stay varies from a few weeks (educational or recreational reasons) up to several years. Since 1982 the foundation is also active in countries of

800-482: The pedagogues Elisabeth Rotten and Marie Meierhofer . The aim was to provide the children with education and a friendly atmosphere to give them the possibility to become cooperative, understanding world citizens and that after their graduation they would return to their home-country. The locals were very positive about the project and agreed to the building of a road which connected the Children's Village with Trogen. As

832-531: The president of the Medicine Students Association. In 1933 he attended a semester in the University of Vienna where he was confronted with Nazism . He found his worldview challenged and went to study at the University of Berlin where his lodge was searched by the Gestapo and forbidden books were found. Following a student court found Corti as essentially Jewish and a merely tolerated foreigner

864-436: The private school of Sinai Tschuloks he obtained a Federal Matura in 1930. When he was 19 years old he became interested in the pan-idealist movement led by the Paneuropean Union of Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi , becoming the president of the European youth section. He decided to become a medic and in 1931 with the aim of becoming a brain scientist began to study medicine at the University of Zurich , where he became

896-527: The symbol of the village the Ladybird was chosen, and handkerchiefs displaying the ladybird were produced. With the assistance of voluntary helpers from all over Europe, 15 houses were built that served war orphans from the surrounding countries as a refuge. In the same year children from war-torn countries settled the first houses. The children from the different nations lived each in an own house and were taught in their native language. The houses were given names in

928-624: Was 121,204 copies in 2006. NZZ am Sonntag was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year in the category of weekly newspaper by the European Newspapers Congress in 2012. In 2005, the complete run of the newspaper's first 225 years was scanned from microfilm . A total of two million images comprising seventy terabytes , and its Blackletter type was scanned – using optical character recognition  – at

960-598: Was a Swiss philosopher and writer. He contributed to the newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the cultural magazine Du . In 1946 (after World War II ) he helped found the Pestalozzi Children's Village which served homeless children and orphans from the war-torn countries . Walter Corti was born on 11 September 1910 in Zurich as the son of the botanic Alfred Corti the owner of the chemical company Flora in Dübendorf and

992-606: Was an editor for the Du until 1957. He was also assemble a library and expand into an archive on genetic philosophy. Specialized libraries around the works of the philosophers Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel came into the collection of Corti. In 1957 Herbert Schneider gave him more than 2500 books from the philosophical library of the Columbia University in New York . In 1954 Corti called for

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1024-434: Was renamed Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1821. According to Peter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr, many prestige German language newspapers followed its example because it set "standards through an objective, in-depth treatment of subject matter, eloquent commentary, an extensive section on entertainment, and one on advertising." Aside from the switch from its blackletter typeface in 1946, the newspaper has changed little since

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