Carl Spitteler's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring". The birth-card coordinate for April 24 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1919 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1919 The Nobel Prize in Literature — in special appreciation of his epic, <I>Olympian Spring</I>

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Carl Spitteler's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Carl Spitteler. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Carl Spitteler in the public record

His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems. Spitteler was born in Liestal. His father was an official of the government, being Federal Secretary of the Treasury from 1849 to 1856. Young Spitteler attended the gymnasium at Basel, having among his teachers philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel and historian Jacob Burckhardt. From 1863 he studied law at the University of Zurich. In 1865–1870 he studied theology in the same institution, at Heidelberg and Basel, though when a position as pastor was offered him, he felt that he must decline it. He had begun to realize his mission as an epic poet and therefore refused to work in the field for which he had prepared himself. Later he worked in Russia as tutor, starting from August 1871, remaining there (with some periods in Finland) until 1879.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Carl Spitteler (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic Olympian Spring".

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Also on the record

1. Later he was elementary teacher in Bern and La Neuveville, as well as journalist for the Der Kunstwart and as editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
2. In 1883 Spitteler married Marie op der Hoff, previously his pupil in Neuveville.
3. Under the pseudonym Carl Felix Tandem, Spitteler published the allegoric prose poem Prometheus and Epimetheus in 1881, contrasting between ideals and dogmas through the mythological figures of Prometheus and Epimetheus.
4. This 1881 edition received an extended psychological exegesis by Carl Gustav Jung in his 1921 book Psychological Types.

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The 10 of Clubs. April 24 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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