BITZIUS, ALBERT, better known under the nom de plume of Jeremias Gottlielf, a Swissquthor, was b. at Morat, in the canton of Freiburg, 4th Oct., 1797. He was educated for the chnrch; and after holding several cures, was appointed, in 1832. pas tor of in Emmenthal, canton of Bern, which office he retained till his death. His first work was entitled The Mirror of Puaants (Burgsdorf, 1836). It is the touch ing history of a poor villager, Jeremias Gottlielf, pseudonym B. ever after refained. In 1838 appeared his Sorrows and Joys of a Schoolmaster; in 18z:9. Dursli, the Brandy _Drinker, and Bozo Fire Maidens _Miserably. Perish in Brandy; in Scenes and Traditions of the Swim, in 6 vols., in which B. narrates, with great art, the ok] national Jegends, among which the most remarkable is the Beconrdiation. best and most popular of his stories, however, are Grandmother Katy (Berlin, 1848); Uli, the Farm servant (Berlin, 2d edition, 1830); and Stories and Pictures at Popular Life in Switzerland (Berlin, 1851.) Subsequently, he wrote several pamplets against the German democrats,
without, however, violating those popular sympathies and liberal convictions which per vade his writings, and which at an earlier period led him to vehemently oppose the family government of the Bernese aristocracy. His last work was The Clergyman's Wife, which appeared in 183•. Its author died on the 22d Oct. of the same year. B.'s writ ings are greatly relished in Switzerland. They aro characterized by simplicity, inven tiveness, a wonderful fidelity in the delineation of manners and habits, great vigor of description, and raciness of humor, while their tone is strictly moral and Christian.