Swiss Poet
1. Eugen Gomringer (1925)
Swiss Poet
Eugen Gomringer is often called the father of concrete poetry. Gomringer lives in the region of Bamberg in Germany. 1977-1990 he was a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf the Arts...
2. Philippe Jaccottet (1925)
Swiss Poet
Philippe Jaccottet is a francophone poet and translator from the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
3. Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (1792)
Swiss Poet
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn was a poet of French-Swiss origin.
4. Meinrad Lienert (1865)
Swiss Poet
The Swiss writer Meinrad Lienert is most noted for his works in the Swiss German dialect. After finishing his studies of law he became notary in his native town of...
5. Maurice Chappaz (1916)
Swiss Poet
Maurice Chappaz was a French-language Swiss poet and writer. He published more than 40 books and won several literary awards including his country's most notable award the Grand Prix Schiller...
6. Regina Ullmann (1884)
Swiss Poet
Regina Rega Ullmann was a Swiss poet.
7. Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich (1796)
Swiss Poet
Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich was a Swiss poet.
8. Juste Olivier (Unknow)
Swiss Poet
Juste Daniel Olivier Swiss poet was born near Nyon in the canton of Vaud; he was brought up as a peasant but studied at the college of Nyon and later...
9. Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn (1775)
Swiss Poet
Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn was a Bernese pastor folklorist and poet known for his dialectal songs. He edited the Bernese Hinkender Bote almanach from 1804 to 1810. In 1811 he co-founded...
10. Peider Lansel (1863)
Swiss Poet
Peider Lansel was a Swiss Romansh lyric poet. He is most known for having revived Rhaeto-Romansh as a literary language. His family was from Sent Switzerland and worked as a...
11. Heinrich Leuthold (Unknow)
Swiss Poet
Heinrich Leuthold was a Swiss poet and translator described by one critic as the writer most endowed with genius of the Munich literary circle Die Krokodile. He was born in...
12. Johann Martin Usteri (1763)
Swiss Poet
Johann Martin Usteri was a Swiss poet noted for has narrative poetry and his idyls. He was one of the earliest German poets to write poems in his native Zürich...
13. Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741)
Swiss Poet
Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet and physiognomist.
14. Max Huwyler (1931)
Swiss Poet
Max Huwyler is a Swiss writer. Originally Max Huwyler was a high school teacher in Zurich. He wrote several books for children theatre plays poetry fiction stories and radio plays....
