Batty Weber

Jean-Baptiste "Batty" Weber (1860–1940) is considered to have been one of Luxembourg's most influential journalists and authors, contributing much to the development of the country's national identity.

[3] Born on 25 November 1860 in Rumelange in south-western Luxembourg, he was the son of the local schoolmaster, Michel Weber, and his wife Marie-Catherine Klein.

Not satisfied with administrative work, he began to contribute to newspapers publishing his first short story "Mein Freund Günther" in Das Luxemburger Land in 1883.

While his novels were written in German, most of the numerous light-hearted plays from 1895 to 1922 were in Luxembourgish although A Mondorf (1900) and Le couscous de la belle-mère were in French.

Weber also did much to promote Luxembourg's budding cultural talents including authors such as Alex Weicker, Marie-Henriette Steil, Albert Hoefler, and Emile Marx and the painters Joseph Kutter, Harry Rabinger, Jean Schaak and Nico Klopp.