Adolf Frey
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Adolf Frey (18 February 1855, Küttigen – 12 February 1920, Zurich) was a Swiss writer and literary historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.[1]
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Biography
The son of popular writer Jakob Frey (1824–1875), he studied at various universities, including from 1879 to 1881 literature and history at the University of Leipzig.
In 1882 he became a German teacher at the high school in Aarau and in 1898 professor of German literature at the University of Zurich. He died six days before his 65th birthday, from cancer.
Works
- Albrecht von Haller und seine Bedeutung für die Deutsche Literatur (1879)
- Schweizersagen (1881)
- J. Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis (1889)
- Erinnerungen an Gottfried Keller (1892)
- Totentanz (1895)
- Duss und underm Rafe: Füfzg Schwizerliedli (1899)
- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1900)
- Die Jungfer von Wattenwil. Historischer Schweizerroman (1912)
- Schweizer Dichter (1914)
- Blumen (1916)
- Briefe Albert Weltis (1916)
- Bernhard Hirzel (1918)
- Stundenschläge. Letzte Gedichte (1920)
- Aus versunkenen Gärten. Ritornelle (1932)
- Aus Literatur und Kunst. Unveröffentlichtes oder Unzugängliches aus dem Werk (1932)
Notes
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External links
Adolf Frey in the German National Library catalogue
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