Hindustan Times: Walking in the footsteps of Heidi and her creator, Johanna Spyri
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Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.
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culture · Swiss novelist (1827–1901) · writer · novelist · children's writer · also Johanna Spyri, Spyri
Born 12 June 1827 · Died 7 July 1901 · Q123053
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2023· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Johanna Spyri and Heidi archives included in the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO
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1951· 1 entry
And on a 20 CHF commemorative coin in 2009
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1901· 1 entry
Died 1901-07-07.
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1852· 1 entry
Johanna Heusser married a lawyer named Bernhard Spyri
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1830· 1 entry
By a German history teacher, Hermann Adam von Kamp, that Spyri may have used as a basis for Heidi
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1827· 1 entry
Born 1827-06-12.
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