Professor Leo Schelbert

Leo Schelbert is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has authored or edited several books and some fifty articles that explore the history of Swiss abroad as part of the European and Neo-European rise to world dominance between 1500 and 1900. Among other books he wrote the first edition of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. In 2006 he was awarded the Swiss Abroad of the Year Prize 2006 by the Free Democratic Party (FDP) International, a section of one of...See more

Leo Schelbert is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has authored or edited several books and some fifty articles that explore the history of Swiss abroad as part of the European and Neo-European rise to world dominance between 1500 and 1900. Among other books he wrote the first edition of the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. In 2006 he was awarded the Swiss Abroad of the Year Prize 2006 by the Free Democratic Party (FDP) International, a section of one of Switzerland's leading political parties. See less