HEER, JAKOB CHRISTOPH (1859-1925), a prolific Swiss novelist, was born at Toss (Canton Zurich) on July 17, 1859, and died on Aug. 20, 1925. After some experience as a teacher and editor, he devoted himself to writing romantic novels, chiefly dealing with Swiss life and marked by a certain old-fashioned air that enhances rather than detracts from their charm. His best work is An Heiligen Wassern (1898) , but the most popular is Der Konig der Bernina (1900), describing an interesting phase in the history of the Grisons. His Tobias Heider (1923) is autobiographical in character.
See G. H. Heer, Jakob Christoph Heer (1927).