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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Burkhard, Marianne |
| Title, Analytic | Ferdinand Sperl, 1918-2006: The International Life of a Swiss Hotelkeeper |
| Journal Title | Swiss American Historical Society Review |
| Date of Publication | Feb. 2009 |
| Volume ID | 45 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 3-29, ill. |
| ISSN | 0883-4814 |
| Abstract | Franz Peter Ferdinand Sperl was born on June 6, 1918 in the Hotel Bristol in Bern which was owned by his father Johann Baptist Sperl (1874-February 1969) who was a citizen of Bollingen, Canton Bern. His mother, Martha Barbara Helfer (1882-June 1969), came from Murten. The couple also had a daughter Gertrude (born 1909). Ferdinand Sperl arrived in the United States in 1939; during the Second World War he served in military intelligence, and afterwards returned to his career as a hotelier in Peoria, Illinois. This account includes excerpts from Sperl's memoirs. Sperl died in 2006. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Swiss Americans/ 20th century/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Sperl/ Illinois/ Business & Industry/ World War, 1939-1945/ Memoirs |