Hedwig Anneler

Hedwig Anneler (February 5, 1888, Thun — May 8, 1969, Givrins, canton of Vaud) was a Swiss ethnologist and writer.

Her mother was Marie Anneler, née Beck from Neuhausen.

In the following years, she engaged in intensive folklore studies of the Lötschental, which form the basis of her work Lötschen.

As early as the 1930s, Anneler campaigned for a relaxation of the restrictive Swiss asylum practice.

Her most important literary work, the novel Blanche Gamond, depicts the fates of victims of Huguenot persecution and expulsion in the 17th century.