Calvin Ziegler

Biography:

Charles Calvin Ziegler was a German-American poet from Rebersburg Pennsylvania. His native language was Pennsylvania Dutch and though he learned English in school he wrote his poetry in Dutch. He is said to have been the most accomplished poet to write in that language and may have written the only Pennsylvania Dutch sonnet on record. Ziegler was born on a farm to a 39 year old mother and an even older father.