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Encyclopedia ... 1782–1830), Swiss writer, born in Bern, and educated at German universities.
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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 ...
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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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Johann Rudolf Wyss (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 (1812; trans. 1814), an adventure novel, begun 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.