Betsy Meyer

Betsy Meyer with her brother Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (around 1855)

Betsy Meyer , full name Elisabeth Cleophea Meyer (born March 19, 1831 in Zurich ; † April 22, 1912 in Veltheim ; resident in Zurich) was a Swiss writer from the canton of Zurich .

Life

Betsy Meyer was a daughter of Ferdinand Meyer and a sister of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . Meyer operating times - and character studies . From his youth she was active in charitable : in Zurich for female prisoners, in Florence as part of the Waldensian community and in Männedorf in 1880 with the entry into the Zellersche Institute for Mind sick .

She also supported her brother and made it possible for him to take the first step in public in 1864 . As his colleague, she mediated between him and his publisher and was a co-author of works by Meyer until at least 1879 (including Der Heilige , published in 1879). From 1892 she was solely responsible for revising the new editions of his works. It was the main oral and written source for Adolf Frey's standard biography about her brother until the time of his marriage.

Works

• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer in the memory of his sister Betsy Meyer. Verlag Gebrüder Paetel, Berlin 1903. (Reprint 1971: Zbinden Verlag, Basel)

literature

• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's estate in the Zurich Central Library .
• Maria Nils: Betsy Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's sister: life story, diaries and letters. Huber & Co., Leipzig 1943.
• Hans Zeller: Betsy Meyer's co-authorship of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's work. In: literary collaboration. Edited by Bodo Platcha. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2001, pp. 167-196.
• Rosmarie Zeller: Betsy Meyer, secretary, copyist, employee. In: literary collaboration. Edited by Bodo Platcha. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2001, pp. 157–166.
• Publishing correspondence: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Betsy Meyer - Hermann Haessel with corresponding correspondence and publishing documents. 5 volumes. Wallstein, Göttingen 2014–2019.

Web links

• Hans Zeller: Betsy Meyer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 8, 2009 , accessed August 8, 2020 .

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