Hugo Marti Explained

Birth Name:Hugo Marti
Birth Date:23 December 1893
Birth Place:Basel, Switzerland
Death Date:20 April 1937
Death Place:Davos, Switzerland
Occupation:Germanist
Writer
Literary editor
Nationality:Swiss

Hugo Marti (1893–1937) was a Swiss Germanist, writer and literary editor.

Life and work

Hugo Marti grew up in Basel, Liestal and Bern. Initially he studied law, but in 1914 switched to German studies (literature and linguistics). His studies were several times interrupted by periods spent in Norway and Romania where he supported himself by working as a home tutor. He eventually obtained his doctorate from the University of Bern in 1921 with a dissertation on the language used in the Swiss Civil Code.

His first job after this was on the iconic Pestalozzi-Kalender, a diary/agenda published annually for school children.[1] In 1922 he was appointed to a Literary editorship with Der Bund, a daily national newspaper published in Bern. Here many of his more satirical contributions appeared under the pseudonym, "Bepp": Bepp's true identity became known only after the writer's death. As literary editor he was supportive of younger authors such as Friedrich Glauser and Kurt Guggenheim, and acted as a counter-weight to the famously conservative "Literature Pope", Otto von Greyerz

Marti died at Davos, then well known as a health resort, in his 44th year from tuberculosis, with which he had been diagnosed in 1928. He had written about his treatment for the disease in his "Davoser Stundenbuch".

Published output

Posthumously published

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Berner Kulturagenda - Pestalozzi-Kalender bei Buch über Mittag . 23 August 2014 . 23 August 2014 . https://archive.today/20140823151723/http://www.kulturagenda.be/rubrik/worte/pestalozzi-kalender_bei_buch_uber_mittag/ . dead .