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  The
family of Salis and Julie Schwabe is not related to the family of
Phillip and
Samson Schwabe. However many remarkable parallels exit between them and a
few notes on the Salis Schwabe family follow. For a more detailed description of
the Salis Schwabe family
follow this link.
Richard
Cobden (left) was a close friend of Salis and Julie Schwabe. This picture is
taken from Julie's book 'Reminiscences of Richard Cobden' which she compiled
using her husband's name Mrs. Salis Schwabe. The Salis Schwabes counted among
their friends: Chopin, Jenny Lind, Dame Ethel Smythe, Garibaldi, Mazzini,
Charles Halle, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ary Sheffer, Richard Wagner, Froebel, Florence
Nightingale, Baron Bunsen, The Carlyles, The Empress Victoria of Germany, and
many others.
Very little has been written about the Salis Schwabe family. One source is Nietzsche's close friend Malwida von
Meysenberg who acted for a time as governess to their children. Elizabeth
Gaskell (right) spent some of her holidays with the Schwabes at their home on
the Aisle of Angelsey. To return the other Schwabe family
click here.
The following items have been found about Mrs Salis Schwabe. We first begin with
an article from the Times of London 16 November 1877.
Prussia (By Telegraph)
From Our Prussian Correspondent
Berlin, November 15
To-day Mrs. Salis-Schwabe's Exhibition of Pictures, Photographs, and other Works of Art was opened. The Exhibition, being
intended to assist the elementary schools founded at Naples by Mrs. Schwabe, excites considerable attention and sympathy in
this capital. The Empress has contributed some magnificent majolica, the Crown princess giving group-- "Hagar and Ishmael" -
modeled by herself. The King of Bavaria sent a photographic album containing scenes form the Ammergau Passion Plays: the
Palermo and other valuable pictures. The bulk of the Exhibition consists of oil-paintings, sketches, busts, and statuettes by
German, English, and Italian masters. His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince honoured the Exhibition with a visit immediately
after the opening ceremony.
Swain, Charles, 1801-1874: EPITAPH ON THE LATE SALIS SCHWABE, ESQ. [from Letters of Laura D'Auverne (1853)]
Whoe'er thou art who read'st this sculptur'd line,
Here pause, and learn how death becomes divine,---
How holy grows the spot where rests the just,---
What living flowers enwreath his lifeless dust!
And learning thus what Virtue's path can give,
Oh! seek thy home, and aim like him to live!
Of gentle manners,---cultivated mind,---
A spirit seeking good for all mankind,---
A heart with every fond affection rife,
Through all the dear relationships of life;---
A lover of that greatness which hath birth
In things of heaven, and not in gauds of earth;
The high,---the pure,---the intellectual dower
That soars from truth to truth,---from power to power,
And seeks to prove, wherever man hath trod,
That Progress is the ordinance of God!
To Art,---to Science,---lending aid sincere,
Anxious to cherish and expand their sphere;
To welcome Knowledge as the people's friend,
And bid the lowest in earth's scale ascend!
Woe for the hour when that warm heart grew cold,---
'Twas the first time, to young, or poor, or old!
Woe for the hour when that kind hand grew still,---
'Twas death alone could check the generous will!
'Twas death alone,---no other might succeed
To keep unhelped the widow in her need!
Oh! ye to whom the like rich store is given,
Learn here the way that leads the heart to heaven;
And you, ye poor, with flowers his sad grave strew:
He was a Man!---woe that such men are few!
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the Unitarian chapel in Manchester which both the Salis Schwabe family and the
Louis Schwabe family attended.
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