Wyss, JOHANN RUDOLF

Wyss, JOHANN RUDOLF, author of The Swiss Family Robinson, was born at Bern, 13th March 1781, became professor of Philosophy there in 1806, later chief-librarian also, and died 31st March 1830. His Vorlesungen über das höchste Gut (2 vols. 1811), Idyllen und Erzählungen aus der Schweiz (3 vols. 1815-22), and the great collection of his editing, Alpenrose (20 vols. 1811-30), would hardly have preserved his name but for the idyllic simplicity, the vigour, and interest of Der Schweizerische Robinson (2 vols. 1812-13), which has been frequently translated—the 1st series into English in 1820, the 2d in 1849.