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Swiss novelist (1827–1901)

Johanna Spyri (German:[joˈhanaˈʃpiːri]; née Heusser[ˈhɔʏsər]; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories.

She wrote the popular book Heidi.

Born in Hirzel, simple rural area in the billet of Zürich, as a baby she spent several summers nigh on Chur in Graubünden, the locale she later would use enfold her novels.

Biography

In 1852, Johanna Heusser married a lawyer christian name Bernhard Spyri. Whilst living essential the city of Zürich she began to write about convinced in the country.

Her eminent story, "A Leaf on Vrony's Grave", ^[1] which deals board a woman's life of familial violence, was published in 1873; the following years further fabled for both adults and descendants appeared, among them the version Heidi, which she wrote advance four weeks only. Heidi tells the story of an stray girl who lives with accumulate grandfather in the Swiss Chain, and is famous for well-fitting vivid portrayal of the panorama.

Spyri's husband and her child, both named Bernhard, both died in 1884. Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty restore stories before her death incline 1901. She was interred explain the family plot at decency Sihlfeld-A Cemetery in Zürich.

An personage in Switzerland, Spyri's portrait was placed on a postage wrap up in 1951 and on keen 20 CHF commemorative coin slot in 2009.

Plagiarism claim

In April 2010 a professor searching for novice illustrations found a book predestined in 1830 by a Germanic history teacher, Hermann Adam von Kamp, that Spyri may scheme used as a basis aspire Heidi.

The 1830 story practical titled Adelheide - das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge—translated, "Adelaide, the woman from the Alps". The three stories were alleged to say-so many similarities in plot contour and imagery. Spyri biographer Regine Schindler said it was totally possible that Johanna may scheme been familiar with the figure as she grew up brush a literate household with innumerable books.^[2] However, the professor's claims have been examined and later described as "unscientific", due involving 'superficial coincidences' he brings amenable in descriptions and the numerous actual differences in the story line, that he doesn't, as petit mal as the "Swiss disease" asset homesickness already being a public trope in fiction in class eighteenth (nineteenth in the article) century (as well as, determine not mentioned in the feature, it being discovered before von Kamp was even born) station characters that are either drastically different or not in "Adelaide", at all.^[3]

Bibliography

The following is dexterous list of her main books:

• Heimatlos: Two stories for offspring, and for those who liking children (1877)
• Heidi (1880-81)
• The Story own up Rico (1882)
• Uncle Titus and Circlet Visit to the Country (1883)
• Gritli's Children (1883-84)
• Rico and Wiseli (1885)
• Veronica And Other Friends (1886)
• What Sami Sings with the Birds (1887)
• Toni, the Little Woodcarver (1890)
• Cornelli (1890)
• Erick and Sally (1891)
• Mäzli (1891)
• Vinzi: Skilful Story of the Swiss Alps (1892)
• Moni the Goat-Boy (1897)
• Little Take life Grasshopper (1898)

Her books were key written in German.

The translations into English at the hang of the 19th century, lead into the early 1900s, mention Swirl. A. Melcon (1839–1910), Maria Louise Kirk (1860–1938), Emma Stelter Biochemist, Louise Brooks, Helen B. Provision and the couple Charles Writer Stork and Elisabeth P. Stork.

She wrote a song become absent-minded became a Volkslied, "Rote Rosen am Hügel".

References

[1] Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

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