CARL SPITTELER

(Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler)


Carl Spitteler
Carl Spitteler
  • Born: April 24, 1845
  • Died: December 29, 1924
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Profession: Poet

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.