Johannes Jegerlehner

Johannes Jegerlehner was born on 9 April 1871 in Thun, the son of a miller's apprentice. He studied history, geography and Italian literature in Bern, defended his thesis there in 1896, then taught, at the teacher training college in Hofwil and at the Bern city grammar school. He became a collector of tales and legends, published his first Valais collections in 1909, and wrote novels, mostly for young readers, set in the mountains of the Valais and the Oberland, one of which was adapted for the screen in 1929. He died in Bern on 17 March 1937.

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• NarrativeWalliser SagenJohannes Jegerlehner · 1922not translated into EnglishLiterature