Meta Heusser-Schweizer

Meta Heusser-Schweizer (; 6 April 1797 – 2 January 1876) was a Swiss poet. Born in Hirzel as the niece of , she wrote several collections of poems associated with the Württemberg Pietism movement. She was the mother of Johanna Spyri, best known for her children's novel Heidi.

Early and personal life Heusser-Schweizer was born on 6 April 1797 in Hirzel, Switzerland, to Diethelm Schweizer (1751–1824) and Anna Schweizer–Gessner (1757–1836). In 1821 she married physician Johann Jakob Heusser (1783–1859), and had six children with him, among them Johanna Spyri. She died on 2 January 1876, in her birthplace of Hirzel.