WRITER

Johann David Wyss

1743 - 1818

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Johann David Wyss (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈdaːfɪd ˈviːs]; 28 May 1743 – 11 January 1818) was a Swiss author, best remembered for his book The Swiss Family Robinson (Der schweizerische Robinson) (1812). He was born and died in Bern. It is said that he was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, but wanted to write a story from which his own children would learn, as the father in the story taught important lessons to his children. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann David Wyss has received more than 204,524 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann David Wyss is the 4,440th most popular writer (down from 4,338th in 2019), the 460th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 424th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Swiss Writer.

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  • 2.61

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johann David Wyss ranks 4,440 out of 7,302. Before him are Yoshiki Tanaka, Laurence J. Peter, Duncan Regehr, Jakob Balde, Sophie Kinsella, and Jafar Jabbarly. After him are Pierre Emmanuel, Louis Paul Boon, Mervyn Peake, Hans Henny Jahnn, Alain de Botton, and Rosemary Sutcliff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, Johann David Wyss ranks 29. Before him are Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, William Paley, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Johannes Ewald, and Elisabeth Christina von Linné. After him are José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Marmaduke Tunstall, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and John Fitch. Among people deceased in 1818, Johann David Wyss ranks 38. Before him are Nicolas Isouard, Nikolay Novikov, Josef Abel, Ivan Kulibin, Martha Christina Tiahahu, and Joachim Heinrich Campe. After him are Henry Lee III, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, Carl Frederik von Breda, Louis Augustus Karl Frederick Emil, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Arthur St. Clair, and George Rogers Clark.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann David Wyss ranks 460 out of 1,015. Before him are Daniel Bernhardt (1965), Robert Alt (1927), Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), Romain Grosjean (1986), Max Petitpierre (1899), and Georges de Rham (1903). After him are Alain de Botton (1969), Paolo Macchiarini (1958), Aurelio Galfetti (1936), Hermann Barrelet (1879), Otto Stich (1927), and Alexander Frei (1979).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Johann David Wyss ranks 41. Before him are Philippe Jaccottet (1925), Robert Pinget (1919), Fleur Jaeggy (1940), Peter Bichsel (1935), Fernán Caballero (1796), and Nicolas Bouvier (1929). After him are Alain de Botton (1969), Martin Suter (1948), Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701), Béatrix Beck (1914), Jacques Chessex (1934), and Urs Widmer (1938).

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