id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2094 Swiss literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 8386 570 66 As there is no dominant national language, the four main languages of French, Italian, German and Romansch form the four branches which make up a literature of Switzerland. During that period the Swiss vernacular literature was in German, although in the 18th century, French became fashionable in Bern and elsewhere. But the many-sided Conrad Gesner, a born Swiss, wrote all his works in Latin, German translations appearing only at a later date.[1] In the later literary history of German-speaking Switzerland three names stand out above all others: Albert Bitzius, known as Jeremias Gotthelf from the first of his numerous tales of peasant life in the Emmenthal, Gottfried Keller, perhaps the most genuinely Swiss poet and novelist of the century, and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, also a poet and novelist, but of more cosmopolitan leanings and tastes. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2094.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2094.txt