Adolf Frey (writer)

This article is about the Swiss writer and historian. For the American composer of German birth, see Adolf Frey (composer). For the Swiss footballer, see Adolf Frey (footballer).

Adolf Frey
Born	18 February 1855  Küttigen
Died	12 February 1920  (aged 64) Zurich
Occupation	Writer

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.

Life

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

• Schweizersagen, Leipzig 1881
• Erinnerungen an Gottfried Keller, 1892
• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, sein Leben und seine Werke, 1900
• Aus versunkenen Gärten

External links

Adolf Frey (writer) in the German National Library catalogue