WRITER

Johanna Spyri

1827 - 1901

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Johanna Spyri (Swiss Standard German: [joˈhana ˈʃpiːri]; née Heusser [ˈhɔʏsər]; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johanna Spyri is the 254th most popular writer (down from 211th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Writer.

Johanna Spyri is most famous for writing Heidi, a story about a young girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.

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Among writers, Johanna Spyri ranks 254 out of 7,302. Before her are Mansur Al-Hallaj, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Osamu Dazai, Grazia Deledda, Henrik Pontoppidan, and Dario Fo. After her are Joseph Heller, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, J. K. Rowling, Alcaeus of Mytilene, and Primo Levi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Johanna Spyri ranks 2. Before her is Joseph Lister. After her are Arnold Böcklin, Josef Strauss, Ellen G. White, Francisco Solano López, Marcellin Berthelot, Heonjong of Joseon, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Deodoro da Fonseca, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, and William Holman Hunt. Among people deceased in 1901, Johanna Spyri ranks 6. Before her are William McKinley, Giuseppe Verdi, Queen Victoria, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Victoria, Princess Royal. After her are Leon Czolgosz, Benjamin Harrison, Arnold Böcklin, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, George Francis FitzGerald, and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johanna Spyri ranks 24 out of 1,015. Before her are Élie Ducommun (1833), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Francesco Borromini (1599), Diego Garcia (null), Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945), and Albert I of Germany (1255). After her are Alberto Giacometti (1901), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Conrad Gessner (1516), Bruno Ganz (1941), and Arnold Böcklin (1827).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Johanna Spyri ranks 1. After her are Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Carl Spitteler (1845), Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), Robert Walser (1878), Max Frisch (1911), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908).

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