Peider Lansel (August 15, 1863 – December 8, 1943) was a
Swiss
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Romansh lyric poet
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...
. He is most known for having revived
Rhaeto-Romansh as a literary language. His family was from
Sent
Sent is a former municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into the municipality of Scuol. , Switzerland, (although he was born in
Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...
) and worked as a merchant, as well as being a poet.
External links
Peider Lansel - BAINVEGNIat www.peiderlansel.ch
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The Districts of Obstana, Untertasna and Remüsfrom a personal website hosted on mindspring.com; no idea of further source.
1863 births
1943 deaths
Swiss male poets
Romansh-language writers
Romansh people
19th-century Swiss poets
20th-century Swiss poets
20th-century male writers
19th-century male writers
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