Salomon Gessner was a Swiss painter, graphic artist, government official, newspaper publisher, and poet, best known in the latter instance for his Idylls. He was a co-founder of the Helvetic Society and the first publisher and editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
- Occupation
- poet, painter, journalist, graphic artist
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Born
- April 1, 1730, 1730
- Died
- March 2, 1788, 1788
