Johann Sehwers (Latvia, 28.06.1868 - 05.11.1940)

Significant chess composer of endgame studies (about 100 works)

He was born in Lewimani (Latvia) and lived in Riga, but after he married a German woman settled in Germany, adapting his name to a Germanic form

Doctorate in philosophy. Sehwers was passionate about chess composition and came to create a wealth of interesting endgame studies.

He published a book "Endspielstudien" (Berlin and Leipzig, 1922) that he dedicated to his wife.

Source: Website arves.org

Die Schwalbe (magazine for chess problems) wrote in Issue 276, December 2015:

"The Baltic German Johann Sehwers (28.6.1868-7.11.1940) was a teacher and linguist and as such was particularly interested in the influence of the German language on Latvian. At the end of the 19th century, inspired by a study by Bething, he began to compose endgame studies. He published a collection of his approximately 100 studies, comprising 87 exercises, with de Gruyter in 1922." (dieschwalbe.de)

Others: 33 endgame studies by him are selected with solution on Website arves.org. (Selection was made by Mario Guido García)