Johann Rudolf Wyss

Johann Rudolf Wyss ( born March 4, 1782 Bern, † March 21, 1830 ) was a Swiss poet and professor of philosophy.

Life

Johann Rudolf Wyss studied in Bern, Tübingen, Göttingen and Halle, and was afterwards tutor in Yverdon. In 1805 he became a full professor at the Berne Academy and worked from 1827 to 1830 as its Chief Librarian. During this time he was also a teacher of Jeremias Gotthelf.

Wyss wrote the text for the former Swiss national anthem Will you call my country. He was editor of the 1811 together with Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn and Ludwig Meisner substantiated by the ethnographic almanac alpine roses and together with Rudolf Emanuel Stierlin he edited the Bern Chronicle of Valerius Anshelm.

However, he was best known as the editor of the written by his father Johann David Wyss book The Swiss Family Robinson. The first volume of this work appeared in 1812, the second in 1826 and third in 1827.

Other works

  • Idylls, folk tales, legends and stories from Switzerland, 2 vols, 1815-22 Bern
  • Travel in the Bernese Oberland, 2 vols, 1816-17 Bern
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