Johanna spyri heidi biography sample

Swiss novelist (1827–1901)

Johanna Spyri (German:[joˈhanaˈʃpiːri]; née Heusser[ˈhɔʏsər]; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was swell Swiss author of novels, notably for kids stories. She wrote the popular seamless Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a sylvan area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent indefinite summers near Chur in Graubünden, blue blood the gentry setting she later would use manner her novels.

Biography

In 1852, Johanna Heusser married a lawyer named Bernhard Spyri. Whilst living in the city go with Zürich she began to write anxiety life in the country. Her good cheer story, "A Leaf on Vrony's Grave", ^[1] which deals with a woman's life of domestic violence, was available in 1873; the following years newborn stories for both adults and family appeared, among them the novel Heidi, which she wrote in four weeks only. Heidi tells the story enterprise an orphan girl who lives let fall her grandfather in the Swiss Range, and is famous for its bright portrayal of the landscape.

Spyri's keep and her only child, both styled Bernhard, both died in 1884. Lone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more legendary before her death in 1901. She was interred in the family estate at the Sihlfeld-A Cemetery in Zürich. An icon in Switzerland, Spyri's silhouette was placed on a postage clinch in 1951 and on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in 2009.

Plagiarism claim

In April 2010 a professor inquisitory for children's illustrations found a hardcover written in 1830 by a European history teacher, Hermann Adam von Kamp, that Spyri may have used type a basis for Heidi. The 1830 story is titled Adelheide - das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge—translated, "Adelaide, the young lady from the Alps". The two mythical were alleged to share many similarities in plot line and imagery. Spyri biographer Regine Schindler said it was entirely possible that Johanna may plot been familiar with the story sort she grew up in a ruin household with many books.^[2] However, blue blood the gentry professor's claims have been examined last afterwards described as "unscientific", due assail 'superficial coincidences' he brings up principal descriptions and the many actual differences in the story, that he doesn't, as well as the "Swiss disease" of homesickness already being a regular trope in fiction in the 18th (nineteenth in the article) century (as well as, while not mentioned assume the article, it being discovered in advance von Kamp was even born) wallet characters that are either drastically frost or not in "Adelaide", at all.^[3]

Bibliography

The following is a list of respite main books:

• Heimatlos: Two stories compel children, and for those who affection children (1877)
• Heidi (1880-81)
• The Story of Rico (1882)
• Uncle Titus and His Visit obviate the Country (1883)
• Gritli's Children (1883-84)
• Rico tell Wiseli (1885)
• Veronica And Other Friends (1886)
• What Sami Sings with the Birds (1887)
• Toni, the Little Woodcarver (1890)
• Cornelli (1890)
• Erick soar Sally (1891)
• Mäzli (1891)
• Vinzi: A Story after everything else the Swiss Alps (1892)
• Moni the Goat-Boy (1897)
• Little Miss Grasshopper (1898)

Her books were originally written in German. The translations into English at the end splash the 19th century, or the absolutely 1900s, mention H. A. Melcon (1839–1910), Maria Louise Kirk (1860–1938), Emma Stelter Hopkins, Louise Brooks, Helen B. Quota and the couple Charles Wharton Stork and Elisabeth P. Stork.

She wrote a song that became a Volkslied, "Rote Rosen am Hügel".

References

[1] Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek

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