Hugo Marti
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23 December 1893
Writer
Literary editor
Hugo Marti | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hugo Marti 23 December 1893 Basel, Switzerland |
| Died | 20 April 1937 (aged 43) Davos, Switzerland |
| Occupations | Germanist Writer Literary editor |
Hugo Marti (1893–1937) was a Swiss Germanist, writer and literary editor.
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".
