Juste Daniel Olivier, Swiss poet, was born near Nyon in the canton of Vaud; he was brought up as a peasant, but studied at the college of Nyon, and later at the academy of Lausanne. Though originally intended for the ministry, his poetic genius (foreshadowed by the prizes he obtained in 1825 and 1828 for poems on Marcos Botzaris and "Julia Alpinula" respectively) inclined him towards literary studies. He was named professor of literature at Neuchâtel (1830), … Wikipedia
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