Jakob Frey

Jakob Frey (13 May 1824 ‒ 30 December 1875) was a Swiss writer of short stories about peasant life.

A. Jakob Frey was born into a large farming family in Gontenschwil.

However this work was unappealing to him and in 1856 he moved to Bern, where he began editing the Berner Zeitung.

Frey was not a particularly prolific writer of short stories, but those he wrote are often considered to be among the best of Swiss literature.

His son Adolf Frey (1855–1920) published his remaining manuscripts and wrote a biography.