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Johann Rudolf Wyss (March 4, 1782 - March 21, 1830) was a Swiss author, writer, and folklorist who wrote the words to the former Swiss national anthem Rufst Du, mein Vaterland in ...
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Swiss writer. He was the son of Johann David Wyss and completed and edited his father's novel Swiss Family Robinson 1812–13. He was also the author of the Swiss national anthem ...
WYSS, Johann Rudolf
1782–1830), Swiss writer, born in Bern, and educated at German universities. He taught philosophy and was a librarian in Bern. Wyss is best known for The Swiss Family Robinson ...

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Johann Wyss (1782-1830), Swiss folklorist and author, born in Bern, and educated at German universities. He taught philosophy and was a librarian in Bern. Wyss is best known for completing and publishing The Swiss Family Robinson (1812; trans. 1814), an adventure novel written by his father, about a ship-wrecked family. It is imitative of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), but has much independent merit. Widely translated, it has become a children's classic. Wyss also wrote an early Swiss national anthem and collected Swiss folklore.