Gsell-Fels

Gsell-Fels, THEODOR, author of the excellent guide-books for Italy, was born at St Gall in 1819, and has laboured with equal success as a medical man in various towns (Würzburg, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, &c.) and as a lecturer on Italian art (chiefly at Basel). His thorough knowledge of Italy, its history and its art treasures, is brilliantly illustrated in his four guide-books to that country—'Oberitalien,' 'Mittelitalien,' 'Rom und die Campagna,' 'Unteritalien und Sizilien'—which are published as Meyer's Reisebücher. Gsell-Fels has also published works on the baths and sanatoria of Switzerland (2d ed. 1885), and Germany (1885), and edited a guide-book on South France.