Jeremias Gotthelf

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Jeremias Gotthelf


Born
in Murten, Switzerland
October 04, 1797

Died
October 22, 1854

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He was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. In 1804 the home was moved to Utzenstorf, a village in the Bernese Emmental. Here young Bitzius grew up, receiving his early education and consorting with the boys of the village, as well as helping his father to cultivate his glebe. In 1812 he went to complete his education at Bern. He was a founding member of the Student Society Zofingia, the second-oldest fraternity in Switzerland (founded in 1819).

In 1820 he was received as a pastor. In 1821 he visited the University of Göttingen, but returned home in 1822 to act as his father's assistant. On his father's death (1824) he went in the same capacity to Herzogenbuchsee, and later to Bern (1829). Early in 1831 he went as assistant to the ag
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“Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.”
Jeremias Gotthelf, Die schwarze Spinne

“Where there is great pride or great wealth, men soon come to believe that their appetites are their wisdom.”
jeremias gotthelf, Die schwarze Spinne

“And now Christine felt as if her face was bursting open and glowing coals were being birthed from it, quickening into life and swarming across her face and all her limbs, and everything within her face had sprung to life, a fiery swarming all across her body. In the lightning’s pallid glow she saw, long-legged and venomous, innumerable black spiderlings scurrying down her limbs and out into the night, and as they vanished they were followed, long-legged and venomous, by innumerable others.”
Jeremias Gotthelf, Die schwarze Spinne

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