Werner Kaegi
Werner Kaegi (February 22, 1901 – June 15, 1979) was a Swiss historian. He is best known for a single work, a biography of Jacob Burkhardt. This appeared in seven volumes, from 1947 to 1982.
He was the recipient of the Gottfried-Keller-Preis and the Erasmus Prize.
His wife was the Catholic mystic and stigmatist Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967). Her spiritual director and friend, the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, kept a journal during many years about her life in which details regarding her relationship with Werner Kaegi can be found. This journal was later edited in 3 volumes under the name "Erde und himmel" ("Earth and heaven").
Kaegi became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948[1] and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1976.[2]
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- 1922: Jakob Bosshart
- 1925: Heinrich Federer
- 1927: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
- 1929: Josef Nadler
- 1931: Hans Carossa
- 1933: Festgabe Universität Zürich
- 1936: Hermann Hesse
- 1938: Ernst Gagliardi
- 1943: Robert Faesi
- 1947: Fritz Ernst
- 1949: Rudolf Kassner
- 1952: Gertrud von Le Fort
- 1954: Werner Kaegi
- 1956: Max Rychner
- 1959: Maurice Zermatten
- 1962: Emil Staiger
- 1965: Meinrad Inglin
- 1967: Edzard Schaper
- 1969: Golo Mann
- 1971: Marcel Raymond
- 1973: Ignazio Silone
- 1975: Hans Urs von Balthasar
- 1977: Elias Canetti
- 1979: Max Wehrli
- 1981: Philippe Jaccottet
- 1983: Hermann Lenz
- 1985: Herbert Lüthy
- 1989: Jacques Mercanton
- 1992: Erika Burkart
- 1994: Gerhard Meier
- 1997: Giovanni Orelli
- 1999: Peter Bichsel
- 2001: Ágota Kristóf
- 2004: Klaus Merz
- 2007: Fabio Pusterla
- 2010: Gerold Späth
- 2013: Collective of writers Bern ist überall
- 2016: Pietro De Marchi
- 2019: Adolf Muschg and Thomas Hürlimann
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