Johann Peter Hebel

Val Scullion (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Ed. by Herbert Rowland, Purdue University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 10 May 1760
Died 22 Sep 1826

Places

Born in Switzerland
Active in Germany

Activities

Primary

Poet
Prose writer

Resources

Hebel's Works

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Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826), born in Basel, Switzerland, to parents in the service of the aristocratic family of Iselin-Ryhiner, was made Prelate of the Lutheran Church in Baden in 1819. His social rise was achieved through education, teaching and writing. His most famous publications are

Allemannische Gedichte

(1803) and

Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes

(1811).

Hebel’s father was a batman to Major Johann Jakob Iselin, an officer in the French army. His father died when Hebel was only two years old. His mother, a servant for the Iselins, lived alternately six months with the Iselin family and six months in Hausen, with the result that Hebel’s early schooling took place in both town and country and was influenced by the standard Swiss German of the time and his local

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Citation: Scullion, Val. "Johann Peter Hebel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 July 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14761, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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