ALBRECHT See also:

• ALBRECHT BITZIUS (1797-1854)

BITZIUS (1797-1854)  , Swiss novelist, best known by his See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen name of " Jeremias Gotthelf," was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 4th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1797 at See also:

• MORAT (Ger. Murten)

Morat, where his See also:

• FATHER

father was pastor . In 1804 the See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home was moved to Utzenstorf, a See also:

• VILLAGE

village in the Bernese Emmenthal . Here See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young See also:

• BITZIUS, ALBRECHT (1797-1854)

Bitzius See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up, receiving his See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• EDUCATION

education and consorting with the boys of the village, as well as. helping his father to cultivate his See also:

• GLEBE (Lat. glaeba, gleba, clod or lump of earth, hence soil, land)

glebe . In 1812 he went to See also:

• COMPLETE

complete his education at See also:

• BERN (Fr. Berne)

Bern, and in 182o was received as a pastor . In 1821 he visited the university of See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, but returned home in 1822 to See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act as his father's assistant . On his father's See also:

• DEATH

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 (Fr. Berthoud)

Burgdorf), being soon elected his successor (1832) and marrying one of his See also:

• GRAND

grand-daughters (1833) . He spent the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

• LIFE

life there, dying on the 22nd of October 18541 and leaving three See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children (the son was a pastor, the two daughters married pastors) . His first See also:

• WORK

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, GLOSSARY

gloss over its defects and failings . It is written (like the rest of his See also:

• WORKS

works) in the Bernese See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect of the Emmenthal, though it must be remembered that Bitzius was not (like See also:

• AUERBACH, BERTHOLD (1812-1882)

Auerbach) a See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant by See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

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

book was a See also:

• GREAT

great success, as it was a picture of real life, and not of fancifully beribboned 18th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century villagers . Among his later tales are the See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden and Freuden eines Schulmeisters (1838-1839), Uli der Knecht (1841), with its continuation, Uli der See also:

• RICHTER, ADRIAN LUDWIG (1803-1884)
• RICHTER, ERNST FRIEDRICH EDUARD (1808–1879)
• RICHTER, EUGEN (1839–1906)
• RICHTER, HANS (1843– )
• RICHTER, JEREMIAS BENJAMIN (1762–1807)
• RICHTER, JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH (1763–1825)

Richter (1849), See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne Babi Jow¢ger (1843-1844), Kathi See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

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 (Gr. I'Xw)

echo of See also:

• LOCAL

local See also:

• POLITICAL

political controversies, for Bitzius was a Whig and strongly opposed to the See also:

• RADICAL (Lat. radix, a root)

Radical party in the See also:

• CANTON
• CANTON (borrowed from the Ital. cantone, a corner or angle)
• CANTON (more correctly KWANG-CHOW Fu)
• CANTON, JOHN (1718-1772)

canton, which carried the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day in 1846 . Lives by C . See also:

• MANUEL, EUGENE (1823–1901)
• MANUEL, JACQUES ANTOINE (1775-1827)
• MANUEL, LOUIS PIERRE (1751-1793)

Manuel, in the See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

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

original See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text of each See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, were issued at Bern, 1898-1900 (edition not to be completed) . (W . A .

B .