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| ID Number: | PA09-0601 |
| Description: | Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) poet |
| Country or State: | Switzerland |
| Year: | 30 November 1940 |
| Face Value: | 5+5 Ct. - Swiss centime |
| Series: | Pro Juventute |
| Perforation: | comb 11¾ |
| Printing: | Recess |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 24 x 28 mm |
| Emission: | 3,177,250 |
| Catalog Number: | Michel CH 373 Stamp Number CH B106 Yvert et Tellier CH 354 Stanley Gibbons CH J92 Zumstein CH J93 |
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Gottfried Keller was a Swiss writer of German-language literature, was best known for his novel Green Henry (German: Der grüne Heinrich). From 1850 to 1856, he worked in Berlin. Hartmann claims it was chiefly this stay in Berlin which molded Keller's character into its final shape, toned down his rather bitter pessimism to a more moderate form, and prepared him (not without the privations of hunger), in the whirl of a large city, for an enjoyment of the more restricted pleasures of his native Zurich. It was in Berlin that he turned definitely away from other pursuits and took up literature as a career. |
