Johann Martin Usteri
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Johann Martin Usteri (14 February 1763 in Zürich – 29 July 1827, Rapperswil) was a Switzerland, Swiss poet, noted for his narrative poetry and his Idyll, idylls. He was one of the earliest poets to write poems in Swiss German, specifically in his native Zürich dialect; among these, his ''Vicar'' holds the foremost place.Charles Dudley Warner, et al., ''Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern'' (1898), p. 540.


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Swiss male poets 1763 births 1827 deaths {{Switzerland-poet-stub