Johanna Spyri
Swiss author of novels
Johanna Louise Spyri 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... Wikipedia
Born: June 12, 1827, Hirzel, Horgen, Switzerland
Died: July 7, 1901 (age 74 years), Zürich, Switzerland
Children: Berhard Diethelm Spyri
Parents: Meta Heusser-Schweizer and Johann Jakob Heusser
Spouse: Bernhard Spyri (m. 1852–1884)
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