Starkman rectified to 04.22.56 LMT Asc 23Gem44'.“I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.”īorn in Hirzel, a rural village in Switzerland, Johanna Heusser married Johann Spryri when she was 25 and moved to Zurich. Previously Wikipedia was quoted, time unknown. (Translation: memorabilia, page of 12 June: Johanna's birth is noted here: 'Birth of my second daughter, Tuesday morning at eight o'clock, 1827.' (Transcription and commentary of the whole page: see CD-ROM)). Juni : Hier wird Johannas Geburt notiert : « Geburt meiner zweyten Tochter, Dienstag Vormittag um acht Uhr, 1827. » ( Transkription und Kommentar der ganzen Seite : siehe CD - ROM ).' Sy Scholfield cites her mother's record of her birth quoted in Die Memorabilien der Meta Heusser-Schweizer (1797-1876) by Regine Schindler (Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2007), page 128: Death by Disease 7 July 1901 (Cancer, age 74).Death of Child 1884 (Her son, Bernhard Jr.).Family : Change in family responsibilities 1855 (Gave birth to only child, Bernhard Diethelm).Relationship : Marriage 1852 (Bernhard Spyri).sibling relationship with Heusser, Jakob Christian (born 28 March 1826).friend relationship with Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand (born 11 October 1825).Link to Wikipedia biography Relationships Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death from cancer on 7 July 1901 at age 74 in Zürich. Her husband and her only child, both named Bernhard, both died in 1884. In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri, a lawyer who was in Richard Wagner's closest circle of friends in Zurich. Her books were originally written in German and translated into English at the end of the 1800s or the early 1900s. Her older brother Jakob Christian Heusser was a geologist and mineralogist, her niece Emilie Kempin-Spyri was the first Swiss woman to obtain a doctorate in law.īorn in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child Johanna she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.

Spyri was the fourth of six children and second daughter born to the physician Johann Jakob Heusser and the poet Meta Heusser-Schweizer.

Heidi, which has been translated into more than 50 languages, tells the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and is famous for its vivid portrayal of the landscape. Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories, best known for her book Heidi (1881), which she wrote in four weeks.

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