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BITZIUS, ALBRECHT (1797-1854)
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See also:BITZIUS, ALBRECHT (1797-1854) , Swiss novelist, best known by his See also:pen name of " Jeremias Gotthelf," was See also:born on the 4th of See also:October 1797 at See also:Morat, where his See also:father was pastor. In 1804 the See also:home was moved to Utzenstorf, a See also:village in the Bernese Emmenthal. Here See also:young Bitzius See also:grew up, receiving his See also:early See also:education and consorting with the boys of the village, as well as. helping his father to cultivate his See also:glebe. In 1812 he went to See also:complete his education at See also:Bern, and in 182o was received as a pastor. In 1821 he visited the university of See also:Gottingen, but returned home in 1822 to See also:act as his father's assistant. On his father's See also:death (1824) he went in the same capacity to Herzogenbuchsee, and later to Bern (1829). Early in 1831 he went as assistant to the aged pastor of the village of Ltitzelfliih, in the Upper Emmenthal (between Langnau and See also:Burgdorf), being soon elected his successor (1832) and marrying one of his See also:grand-daughters (1833). He spent the See also:rest of his See also:life there, dying on the 22nd of October 18541 and leaving three See also:children (the son was a pastor, the two daughters married pastors). His first See also:work, the Bauernspiegel, appeared in 1837. It purported to be the life of Jeremias Gotthelf, narrated by himself, and this name was later adopted by the author as his pen name. It is a living picture of Bernese (or, strictly speaking, Emmenthal) village life, true to nature, and not attempting to See also:gloss over its defects and failings. It is written (like the rest of his See also:works) in the Bernese See also:dialect of the Emmenthal, though it must be remembered that Bitzius was not (like See also:Auerbach) a See also:peasant by See also:birth, but belonged to the educated classes, so that he reproduces what he had seen and learnt, and not what he had himself personally experienced. The See also:book was a See also:great success, as it was a picture of real life, and not of fancifully beribboned 18th-See also:century villagers. Among his later tales are the See also:Leiden and Freuden eines Schulmeisters (1838-1839), Uli der Knecht (1841), with its continuation, Uli der See also:Richter (1849), See also:Anne Babi Jow¢ger (1843-1844), Kathi See also:die Grossmutter (1847), Die Kdserei in der Vehfreude (1850), and the Erlebnisse eines Schuldenbauers (1854). He published also several volumes of shorter tales. One slightdrawback to some of his writings is the See also:echo of See also:local See also:political controversies, for Bitzius was a Whig and strongly opposed to the See also:Radical party in the See also:canton, which carried the See also:day in 1846. Lives by C. See also:Manuel, in the See also:Berlin edition of Bitzius's works (Berlin, 1861), and by J. Ammann in vol. i. (Bern,. 1884) of the Sammlung Bernischer Biographien. His works were issued in 24 vols. at Berlin, 1856-1861, while to vols., giving the See also:original See also:text of each See also:story, were issued at Bern, 1898-1900 (edition not to be completed). (W. A. B. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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