Up for auction a RARE! "Swiss Publisher" Hans Zbinden Hand Signed Booklet. 

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Hans

Zbinden (born August

26, 1893 in Bern ; † May 9, 1971 there ) was

a Swiss publisher and author . Zbinden

studied law and history in Bern and Zurich ; In 1919 he received his doctorate in Bern. From 1934 to

1959 he was director of the art book publisher Iris. In 1950 he was given

a teaching position in cultural

sociology and criticism ,

became honorary professor in Bern in

1955 , and was President of the Swiss Writers' Association from 1953

to 1967 . His best-known writings include Die Moralkrise des

Abendlandes (1940), Automation as a human problem (1957)

and The threatened human being (1959); With them he made

a significant contribution to the intellectual and cultural rethinking of

Switzerland after the Second World

War .His estate is in the Swiss Literary Archives .