Meta Heusser-Schweizer
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.
- 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 | |
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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 |