Johann David Wyss

Johann David Wyss was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1743, and he lived and died there. Inspired, it is said, by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, he made up a long adventure story to entertain and teach his four sons, about a Swiss pastor, his wife and their four boys who are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island and build a new life there, learning about plants, animals and practical skills as they go. Wyss himself never published the story. His son Johann Rudolf Wyss, a professor and writer known for the words of an early Swiss national anthem, edited the manuscript and published it in German in 1812 as Der Schweizerische Robinson, and another son, Johann Emmanuel, drew the illustrations. It was translated into English two years later as The Swiss Family Robinson, and later translators and editors expanded and changed it considerably. Wyss died in Bern in 1818.

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Faith: Faith not well documented in detail; his writing has been described as firmly Christian and moral in tone. Source: Wikipedia