WRITER

Johanna Spyri

1827 - 1901

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Johanna Louise Spyri (German: [joˈhana ˈʃpiːri]; née Heusser [ˈhɔʏsər]; 12 June 1827 – 7 July 1901) was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johanna Spyri has received more than 511,352 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Johanna Spyri is the 211th most popular writer (up from 225th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Writer.

Johanna Spyri is most famous for writing Heidi, a story about a young girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

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  • 72.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Heidi
1885
Gritli's Children
1920
Cornelli
1920
Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country
2005
Erick and Sally
1921
Heidi
Johanna Spyri, Shirley Temple, Movie tie-in
***The famous Swiss classic about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan girl*** who goes to live with her grandfather, and his goats, in an alm (Alpine pasture)...up the Alps. **One of the most loved classics ...both by children and adults, alike.** ***Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes to Frankfurt to work in a wealthy household, she dreams of returning to the mountains and meadows, her friend Peter, and her beloved grandfather.***
1885
Heidi
Children's fiction, Switzerland, fiction, Family life, fiction
1880
Heidi
Fiction, general
1986
Heidi
Grandfathers, Fiction, Fiction, general
1963
Heidi
Switzerland, fiction, Children's fiction, Fiction, general
1969
Heidi
Children's fiction, Alps, fiction, Readers (Primary)
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Johanna Spyri ranks 211 out of 7,302. Before her are Tristan Tzara, Ray Bradbury, Stéphane Mallarmé, Mario Vargas Llosa, Imre Kertész, and Anacreon. After her are Sigrid Undset, Maurice Leblanc, Carlo Goldoni, Diogenes Laërtius, Terence, and Quintilian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Johanna Spyri ranks 1. After her are Arnold Böcklin, Josef Strauss, Francisco Solano López, Ellen G. White, Joseph Lister, Heonjong of Joseon, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Deodoro da Fonseca, Marcellin Berthelot, William Holman Hunt, and Charles De Coster. Among people deceased in 1901, Johanna Spyri ranks 5. Before her are Giuseppe Verdi, Queen Victoria, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Victoria, Princess Royal. After her are Benjamin Harrison, Arnold Böcklin, William McKinley, Milan I of Serbia, Charles Hermite, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johanna Spyri ranks 16 out of 1,015. Before her are Sepp Blatter (1936), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Paul Klee (1879), Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945), and Charles Albert Gobat (1843). After her are Francesco Borromini (1599), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Alberto Giacometti (1901), Albert Hofmann (1906), and Carl Spitteler (1845).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Johanna Spyri ranks 1. After her are Carl Spitteler (1845), Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921), Erich von Däniken (1935), Karl Barth (1886), Robert Walser (1878), Alejo Carpentier (1904), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Max Frisch (1911), Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), and Gottfried Keller (1819).

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