Meta Heusser-Schweizer

Meta Heusser-Schweizer (right) with her daughters Johanna (left) and Meta (back)

Meta Heusser's birthplace in Hirzel

Home of the Heusser family in Hirzel. Recording from 2006

Meta Heusser-Schweizer (born April 6, 1797 in Hirzel ; † January 2, 1876 ibid) wrote religious poetry and was the mother of Johanna Spyri .

Life

The daughter of the pastor Diethelm Schweizer and the pastor's daughter Anna Gessner married the doctor Johann Jakob Heusser in 1821 . She had six children with him, including Jakob Christian Heusser and Johanna Spyri.

Her religiously motivated poetry appeared from 1814. Her poems were first published anonymously, then from 1863 under her own name. A first collection of poems appeared in 1858, the second in 1867. The first complete edition was only published posthumously in 1898.

Works

1858: Songs of a Hidden Woman (without the author's name). With a foreword by Albert Knapp, Leipzig
1867: poems. Second collection , Leipzig
1898: poems. New edition (complete edition), Basel
1980: House chronicle . Published by Karl Fehr, Kilchberg am Zürichsee

literature

Meta Heusser-Schweizer: House Chronicle . Published by Karl Fehr. Publisher Mirio Romano, Kilchberg near Zurich, 1980
C. Menzel: Heußer-Schweizer, Meta . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 339 f.
Friedrich Greminger: A summer evening in the Meta-Heusser-Heim . Evangelical Society, Zurich 1928
Alfred Stucki: Meta Heusser-Schweizer. The Christian poet . Heinrich Majer Verlag, Basel 1949
Verena Bodmer-Gessner: Heusser-Schweizer, Meta, born Swiss. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 57 f. ( Digitized version ).
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Heusser-Schweizer, Meta. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 799-802. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Regine Schindler: Heusser [-Swiss], Meta. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland ., 2009
Paul Sutermeister: Meta Heußer-Schweizer: Life picture of a Christian poet . Basel 1898; archive.org .

Web links

Literature by and about Meta Heusser-Schweizer in the catalog of the German National Library
Meta Heusser-Schweizer in WorldCat

Individual evidence

^ Meta Heusser-Schweizer. In: Heinrich Kurz History of German Literature - with selected pieces from the works of the most excellent writers . Volume 4. Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1872, p. 338

personal data
SURNAME	Heusser-Schweizer, Meta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hirzel
DATE OF DEATH	January 2, 1876
Place of death	Hirzel

[1] Meta Heusser-Schweizer. In: Heinrich Kurz History of German Literature - with selected pieces from the works of the most excellent writers . Volume 4. Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1872, p. 338