Placidus a Spescha (born Julius Baptist Spescha; December 8, 1752 – August 14, 1833) was a Benedictine monk and early Alpine explorer born in Trun, near...
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Look up Placidus or placidus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Placidus is Latin for "placid, gentle, quiet, still, calm, mild, peaceful" and can refer...
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those developed on a large scale in the canton of Glarus. The first recorded attempts to reach the summit were made by Placidus a Spescha, one of the founders...
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(Graubünden). The summit of the Rheinwaldhorn was first reached in 1789 by Placidus a Spescha. For seventy years no attempts seems to have been made to repeat the...
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Alps (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Disentis Placidus a Spescha (1752–1833). Born in Geneva, Saussure was enamoured with the mountains from an early age; he left a law career to become a naturalist...
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Exploration of the High Alps (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
(1740–1799), in the Pennine Alps, and the Benedictine monk of Disentis, Placidus a Spescha (1752–1833), in the valleys at the sources of the Rhine. In the early...
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Piz Aul is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, overlooking Vals in the canton of Graubünden. Retrieved from Google Earth and from the Swisstopo topographic...
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December 8 Sir John Barrington, 9th Baronet of Great Britain (d. 1818) Placidus a Spescha, Swiss mountain climber (d. 1833) Vicesimus Knox, English essayist...
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The following is a list of notable first ascents of the summits of major mountains around the world, in chronological order. The list does not include...
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9 – Godfrey Higgins, English archaeologist (b. 1772) August 14 – Placidus a Spescha, Swiss mountain climber (b. 1752) September – James Farquhar, Scottish...
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28 March 1850) was a Swiss painter, landscape artist and publisher. He was born in Feuerthalen. His father, Johann Heinrich, was a landscape painter and...
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Swiss literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Sursilvan poets of the time include Théodore de Castelberg (1748–1818), Placidus a Spescha (1752–1833) or Gion Antoni Huonder (1824–1867). The best-known Sursilvan...
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The Rhaetian Railway ABe 8/12, which is also known as the Allegra, is a class of dual voltage metre gauge three car multiple unit trains of the Rhaetian...
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