Swiss poets

Salomon Gessner (1 April 1730 – 2 March 1788) was a Swiss painter and poet.

Jacques Chessex ( Payerne, 1 March 1934 – Yverdon-les-Bains, 9 October 2009) was a Swiss author and painter.

Heinrich Glarean (also Glareanus) (June 1488 – 28 March 1563) was a Swiss music theorist, poet and humanist.

Erika Burkart (February 8, 1922, Aarau – April 14, 2010) was a Swiss writer and poet.

Gustave Roud (French pronunciation: ​[ɡystav ʁu]; April 20, 1897 – November 10, 1976) was a French-speaking Swiss poet and photographer.

Johann Jakob Bodmer (19 July 1698 – 2 January 1783) was a German-Swiss author, academic, critic and poet.

Stéphanie Corinna Bille (29 August 1912 – 24 October 1979) was a French speaking writer from Switzerland.

Albert Steffen (December 10, 1884, Wynau, Switzerland – July 13, 1963, Dornach, Switzerland) was a poet, painter, dramatist, essayist, and novelist.

Max Rychner (April 8, 1897 in Lichtensteig, Switzerland – June 10, 1965 in Zurich) - was a Swiss writer, journalist, translator, and literary critic, writing in German.

Alice de Chambrier (28 September 1861 – 20 December 1882) was a Swiss poet.

Maurice Chappaz (21 December 1916, in Lausanne – 15 January 2009) was a French-language Swiss poet and writer.

Vahé Godel (born 16 August 1931 in Geneva) is a French Swiss writer, translator and scholar of Armenian literature.

Heinz Hermann Polzer (German pronunciation: [haɪnts ˈhɛrman ˈpɔltsər]; 24 August 1919 – 13 June 2015), better known under his pseudonym Drs.

Jakob Messikommer (18 August 1828 – 23 August 1917) was a Swiss archaeologist who among others discovered and researched the UNESCO serial site Wetzikon–Robenhausen.

Johann Gaudenz Gubert Graf (& Freiherr) von Salis-Seewis (born December 26, 1762, Malans; died January 29, 1834, Malans) was Swiss poet.

Klaus Merz, (born October 3, 1945 in Aarau, canton Aargau) is a Swiss writer.

Markus Hediger (born 31 March 1959) is a Swiss writer and translator.

Gerold Späth (* 16 October 1939 in Rapperswil) is a Swiss author, poet and writer.

Peider Lansel (August 15, 1863 - December 8, 1943) was a Swiss Romansh lyric poet.

Radka Donnell, (November 24, 1928 Sofia, Bulgaria – February 13, 2013 Zurich, Switzerland) was a feminist, painter, art therapist, poet, translator, storyteller, and pioneer of modern quilt-making.

Johann Jacob Grasser (24 February 1579 – 20 March 1627) was a scholar and polyhistor of Basel.

Max Huwyler (born December 6, 1931 in Zug) is a Swiss writer.

Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich (1 February 1796, Brugg, Aargau – 1 December 1865) was a Swiss poet.

Fabio Pusterla (b. Mendrisio, Switzerland, 1957) is a Swiss translator and writer in Italian.

Isabelle Kaiser (2 October 1866, Beckenried – 17 February 1925, Beckenried) was a Swiss writer who produced works in the French and German languages.

Regina "Rega" Ullmann (14 December 1884 – 6 January 1961) was a Swiss poet and writer.

Johann Martin Usteri (14 February 1763 in Zürich – 29 July 1827, Rapperswil) was a Swiss poet, noted for has narrative poetry and his idyls.

Daniele Pantano (born February 10, 1976) is a poet, literary translator, editor, and scholar.

Gottlieb Jakob Kuhn (16 October 1775–23 July 1849) was a Bernese pastor, folklorist and poet, known for his dialectal songs.

Heinrich Leuthold (9 August 1827–1 July 1879) was a Swiss poet and translator, described by one critic as the writer "most endowed with genius" of the Munich literary circle, Die Krokodile.

Henri Dobler (1863-1941) was a Swiss art collector, painter, poet and art critic.

Arthur Cravan (born Fabian Avenarius Lloyd on 22 May 1887, Lausanne, Switzerland) was known as a pugilist, a poet, a larger-than-life character, and an idol of the Dada and Surrealism movements.

Charles Didier (15 September 1805 – 7 March 1864) was a Swiss writer, poet and traveller.

Marie-Louise Dreier, (October 3, 1936 - ) in Brussels is a poet living in Bex in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Philippe Rahmy (born 5 June 1975 in Geneva) is a poet and writer.

Philippe-Sirice Bridel (also Philippe Cyriaque), known as le Doyen Bridel (born 20 November 1757 in Begnins, Bernese Vogtei of Nyon, died 20 May 1845 in Montreux, canton of Vaud, Swiss Confederation)was a man of letters, advocate of Swiss folklore, active during the development of Swiss national identity.