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BITZIUS, ALBRECHT (1797-1854)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 15 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BITZIUS, ALBRECHT (1797-1854) , Swiss novelist, best known by his pen name of " Jeremias Gotthelf," was born on the 4th of October 1797 at Morat, where his father was pastor. In 1804 the
home
  was moved to Utzenstorf, a
village
  in the Bernese Emmenthal. 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, and in 182o was received as a pastor. In 1821 he visited the university of Gottingen, 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 aged pastor of the village of Ltitzelfliih, in the Upper Emmenthal (between Langnau and Burgdorf), being soon elected his successor (1832) and marrying one of his grand-daughters (1833). He spent the rest of his life there, dying on the 22nd of October 18541 and leaving three children (the son was a pastor, the two daughters married pastors). His first
work
 , the Bauernspiegel, appeared in 1837. It purported to be the life of Jeremias Gotthelf, narrated by himself, and this name was later adopted by the author as his pen name. It is a living picture of Bernese (or, strictly speaking, Emmenthal) village life, true to nature, and not attempting to gloss over its defects and failings. It is written (like the rest of his works) in the Bernese dialect of the Emmenthal, though it must be remembered that
Bitzius
  was not (like Auerbach) a peasant by
birth
 , but belonged to the educated classes, so that he reproduces what he had seen and learnt, and not what he had himself personally experienced. The book was a
great
  success, as it was a picture of real life, and not of fancifully beribboned 18th-century villagers. Among his later tales are the Leiden and Freuden eines Schulmeisters (1838-1839), Uli der Knecht (1841), with its continuation, Uli der Richter (1849), Anne Babi Jowger (1843-1844), Kathi die Grossmutter (1847), Die Kdserei in der Vehfreude (1850), and the Erlebnisse eines Schuldenbauers (1854). He published also several volumes of shorter tales. One slightdrawback to some of his writings is the echo of local political controversies, for Bitzius was a Whig and strongly opposed to the Radical party in the canton, which carried the day in 1846.
Lives by C. Manuel, in the Berlin edition of Bitzius's works (Berlin, 1861), and by J. Ammann in vol. i. (Bern,. 1884) of the Sammlung Bernischer Biographien. His works were issued in 24 vols. at Berlin, 1856-1861, while to vols., giving the
original
  text of each story, were issued at Bern, 1898-1900 (edition not to be completed). (W. A. B. C.)


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