Peider Lansel

Romansh poet
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Born:
Aug. 15, 1863, Pisa
Died:
Dec. 9, 1943, Geneva (aged 80)
Subjects Of Study:
Rhaetian dialects

Peider Lansel (born Aug. 15, 1863, Pisa—died Dec. 9, 1943, Geneva) was a Romansh leader of the revival of Rhaeto-Romance language and culture and one of its most accomplished lyric poets. Spending every summer at his family’s native village of Sent in the Engadine, Lansel devoted himself to the collection and critical examination of Rhaeto-Romance texts of the previous four centuries, work that was crowned by publication of the lyric anthology La musa ladina (1910, 2nd ed., 1918) and amplified in Musa rumantscha (1950) and by his study Ils retoromans (1935), translated into English, German, Italian, French and Esperanto. In ...(100 of 161 words)