See also:

• CONRAD (d. 955)
• CONRAD, JOSEPH (1856– )
• CONRAD, or KONRAD (M. H. Ger. Kuonrdl, i.e. " keen in counsel," Lat. Conradus, It. Corrado, cf. the A.S. Ccenred)

CONRAD OF See also:

• WURZBURG

WURZBURG (d. 1287)  , the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poet of the second See also:

• HALF

half of the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . As little is known of his See also:

• LIFE

life as that of any other epic poet of the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . By See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth probably a native of See also:

• WURZBURG

Wurzburg, he seems to have spent See also:

• PART

part of his life in See also:

• STRASSBURG, or STRASBURG (French Strasbourg)

Strassburg and his later years in See also:

• BASEL (Fr. Bale)
• BASEL (Fr. Belle, but Basle is a wholly erroneous form; Ital. Basilea)
• BASEL, CONFESSION OF
• BASEL, COUNCIL OF

Basel, where he diedon the 31st of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1287 . Like his *See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master, Gottfried of Strassburg, See also:

• CONRAD (d. 955)
• CONRAD, JOSEPH (1856– )
• CONRAD, or KONRAD (M. H. Ger. Kuonrdl, i.e. " keen in counsel," Lat. Conradus, It. Corrado, cf. the A.S. Ccenred)

Conrad did not belong to the See also:

• NOBILITY

nobility, from which most of the poets of the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time sprang . His varied and voluminous See also:

• LITERARY

literary. See also:

• WORK

work is comparatively See also:

• FREE

free from the degeneration which set in so rapidly in See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle High German See also:

• POETRY

poetry during the 13th century . His See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, although occasionally diffuse, is dignified in See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone; his See also:

• METRE ((terpuc?, sc. rFxvf, from Gr. Or poi', measure)

metre is clearly influenced by Gottfried's tendency to relieve the monotony of the epic-metre with ingenious See also:

• VARIATIONS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS
• VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF

variations, but it is always correct; his narratives—if we except See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die halbe Birn; of which the authorship is doubtful—are free from coarseness, to which the popular poets at this time were prone, and, although See also:

• MYSTICISM (from Or. µuety, to shut the eyes; µuorrts, one initiated into the mysteries)

mysticism and See also:

• ALLEGORY (iXXos, other, and ayopeuav, to speak)

allegory bulk largely in his See also:

• WORKS

works, they were not allowed, as in so many of his contemporaries, to usurp the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of poetry . Conrad has written a number of legends (Alexius, See also:

• SILVESTER

Silvester, Pantaleon) illustrating See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian virtues and dogmas; Der Welt Lolvn, a didactic allegory on the See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar theme of " Fran Welt," the woman beautiful in front, unsightly and loathsome behind . Die goldene Schmiede is a See also:

• PANEGYRIC

panegyric of the Virgin; the Klage der Kunst, an allegorical See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of poetry . His most ambitious works are two enormously See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long epics, Der trojanische Krieg (of more than 40,000 verses and unfinished at that!) and Partenopier and Meliur, both of which are based on See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French originals . Conrad's See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers are to be seen to best See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage in his shorter See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse romances, such as Engelhart and Engeltrut, Kaiser See also:

• OTTO

Otto and Das Herzemaere; the last mentioned, the theme of which has been made familiar to See also:

• MODERN

modern readers by See also:

• UHLAND, JOHANN LUDWIG (1787-1862)

Uhland in his Kastellan von See also:

• COUCY, LE CHATELAIN DE

Coucy, is one of the best poems of its See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind in Middle High German literature . There is no See also:

• UNIFORM

uniform edition of Conrad's works . Der trojanische Krieg was edited by A. von See also:

• KELLER, ALBERT (1845- )
• KELLER, GOTTFRIED (1819-1890)
• KELLER, HELEN ADAMS (188o- )

Keller for the See also:

• STUTTGART

Stuttgart Literarische Verein (1858); Partenopier and Meliur, by K .

Bartsch (1871); Die goldene Schmiede and Silvester, by W . See also:

• GRIMM, FRIEDRICH MELCHIOR, I
• GRIMM, JACOB LUDWIG CARL (1785-1863)
• GRIMM, WILHELM CARL (1786-1859)

Grimm (1840 and 1841); Alexius, by H . F . Massmann (1843) and R . Henczynski (1898); Der Welt Lohn, by F . See also:

• ROTH, JUSTUS LUDWIG ADOLF (1818-1892)

Roth (1843) ; Engelharl and Engeltrut, by M . See also:

• HAUPT, MORITZ (1808—1874)

Haupt (1844, 2nd ed., 1890); Klage der Kunst, by E . See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph (1885) . The shorter poems, Otto and Herzemaere, will be found most conveniently in Erzahlungen and Schwanke See also:

• DES

des Mittelalters, edited by H . Lambel (2nd ed., 1883) . Modern German See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations of Conrad's most popular poems have been published by K . See also:

• PANNIER (Fr. panier, Lat. panarium, a basket for carrying bread, panis)

Pannier and H .

See also:

• KRUGER, STEPHANUS JOHANNES PAULUS (1825-1904)

Kruger in Reclam's Universalbibliothek (1879-1891) . On Conrad see F . See also:

• PFEIFFER
• PFEIFFER, FRANZ (1815—1868)

Pfeiffer in Germania, iii . (1867), and W . Golther in the A.11gemeine deutsche Biographie, vol . 44 (1898), s.v .