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    October 1854) was a Swiss novelist, best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf. Bitzius was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. The Bitzius...
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    The Black Spider is a novella by the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf written in 1842. Set in an idyllic frame story, old legends are worked into a Christian-humanist...
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  • American philosopher and scholar Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854), pen name of Swiss novelist Albert Bitzius Michael Gotthelf (born 1953), German journalist...
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    therefore about the nature of art). It has also been suggested that Jeremias Gotthelf's nineteenth-century novella, The Black Spider, was heavily influenced...
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    Die Wassernot im Emmental (The Water Crisis in the Emmen Valley) by Jeremias Gotthelf impressively describes a very large and destructive, and therefore...
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    lands increased. Among the classic authors of Swiss literature are Jeremias Gotthelf (1797–1854) and Gottfried Keller (1819–1890); later writers are Max...
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    Ebner-Eschenbach Joseph von Eichendorff Theodor Fontane Gustav Freytag Jeremias Gotthelf Franz Grillparzer Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm Gerhart Hauptmann Christian...
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    often consciously employ Helvetisms within Standard German, notably Jeremias Gotthelf in his novels set in the Emmental, Friedrich Glauser in his crime...
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    Der Nachsommer". Jeremias Gotthelf published The Black Spider in 1842 as an allegorical work that uses Gothic themes. It is Gotthelf's best known work...
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    Ebner-Eschenbach Joseph von Eichendorff Theodor Fontane Gustav Freytag Jeremias Gotthelf Franz Grillparzer Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm Gerhart Hauptmann Christian...
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