Jeremias Gotthelf

Died in 1854

Albert Bitzius, known as Jeremias Gotthelf, was born on 4 October 1797 in Murten, the son of a pastor, and grew up in Utzenstorf, in the Emmental. He studied theology in Bern, then for a year in Göttingen, was a curate, and arrived in 1831 in Lützelflüh, of which he became the pastor. He married Henriette Zeender in 1833. He took his pen name from the hero of his first novel, published in 1837, when he was approaching forty, and from then on depicted life in the Bernese villages. He died in Lützelflüh on 22 October 1854.

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Short storiesThe Black SpiderDie schwarze SpinneJeremias Gotthelf · 1842Literature