Biographie de Niklaus Schweizer
Niklaus R. Schweizer was born in Zurich, Switzerland. He studied English, German, and colonial history at the University of Zurich and received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis. Since 1970 he has taught at the University of Hawai'i at M ? noa as a professor of German concentrating on the rich field of the European presence in the Pacific and the German contributions to Hawai'i.
He is a director on the board of The Friends of 'Iolani Palace, serves as the president of The Friends of the Royal Hawaiian Band, is on the board of 'Ahahui Ka'iulani and is active in a number of additional community organizations. In addition to several European languages he speaks Hawaiian and Tahitian.