Adolf Frey (18 February 1855,

Küttigen Küttigen is a municipality in the district of Aarau of the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History Küttigen is first mentioned in 1036 as ''Chutingen'' though this comes from a 14th Century copy of the original. In 1045 it was mentioned as '' ...

– 12 February 1920, Zurich) was a Swiss writer and literary historian. He was nominated for the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 ...

seven times.

Life

The son of popular writer

Jakob Frey Jakob Frey (13 May 1824 ‒ 30 December 1875) was a Swiss writer of short stories about peasant life. He used the pseudonyms ''J. Reif'', ''F. Kuhn'', ''F. Imhoof'', and ''J. A.'' Life Jakob Frey was born into a large farming family in Gonte ...

(1824–1875), he studied at various universities, including from 1879 to 1881 literature and history at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

. In 1882 he became a German teacher at the high school in Aarau and in 1898 professor of German literature at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 ...

. He died six days before his 65th birthday, from cancer.

Works

* ''Schweizersagen'', Leipzig 1881 * ''Erinnerungen an

Gottfried Keller Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel ''Green Henry'' (German: ''Der grüne Heinrich'') and his cycle of novellas called ''The People from Seldwyla'' (''Die Leu ...

'', 1892 * '' Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, sein Leben und seine Werke'', 1900 * ''Aus versunkenen Gärten''

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Swiss writers German-language writers 1855 births 1920 deaths {{Switzerland-writer-stub