![]() Many of her books and texts take a realistic look at Switzerland and the living conditions of the people there that do not gloss over things. She died of cancer on 7 July 1901 at the age of 74.Īlthough Johanna Spyri is virtually exclusively associated with Heidi, she wrote 31 books, 27 volumes of stories and four brochures in the 30 years from 1871 – when her first story, “Ein Blatt auf Vrony’s Grab”, was published – until the time of her death. After the death of her son, Johanna Spyri dedicated herself completely to writing and charity work. Her first and only son Bernhard was born in 1855 but died of tuberculosis in 1884. ![]() In 1852 she married Johann Bernhard Spyri, a lawyer and later town clerk of Zurich. These locations were to become the settings for her novel, “Heidi”. She spent several summers in Maienfeld, in the canton of Grisons. Books already meant everything to her in her youth she discovered Goethe, amongst others, and moved away from the pious world that her mother had communicated to her. ![]() Spyri went on to study Modern Languages and Piano in Zürich. Johanna Louise Heusser’s father was a doctor, her mother a priest’s daughter. Swiss author Johanna Spyri was born in Hirzel, in the canton of Zurich, on 12 June 1827. ![]()
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