Meinrad Lienert (21 May 1865 – 26 December 1933) was a

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and

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. He was most noted for his works in the

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language.

Life and work

After finishing his studies of law, Lienert became notary in his native town of

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. Together with two partners he then took over the local newspaper ''Einsiedler Anzeiger'' in 1891 and became its editor. In 1899 he moved to

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where he was initially the editor of the newspaper ''Die Limmat'' but later established himself as an independent writer. In 1919 he returned to journalism becoming the editor of the "Zürcher Volkszeitung". In the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. In 1923 he returned to his native town of Einsiedeln. On 26 December 1933 he died in

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. Meinrad Lienert published his first stories in Swiss German in the ''

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''. These were later published under the name ''Flüehblüemli'' (1891). The poem collection ''s Schwäbelpfyffli'' (1906, 1913, 1920) belongs to his most important dialect works. Apart from that he wrote countless short stories and novels in

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. The most important are: Swiss Tales and Heroic Stories (1914), The King of Euland (1928), The Double Mathias and his Daughters (1929).

References

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