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KONRAD FERDINAND MEYER (1825-1898)

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KONRAD

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FERDINAND
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MEYER (1825-1898)  , Swiss poet and novelist, was
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born at
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Zurich on the rrth of
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October 1825 . After studying
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law at the university, he went for considerable periods to
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Lausanne,
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Geneva and
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Paris, and in
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Italy interested himself in
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historical
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research . In 1875 he settled at Kilchberg near Zurich, was created in 188o a
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doctor philosophiae honoris causa by that university, and died at Kilchberg on the 28th of
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November 1898 . After Gottfried
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Keller, Konrad
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Meyer is the most important Swiss poet of
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modern times, though as a novelist he was perhaps more successful . His poetical
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works include Balladen (1867); Romanzen and Bilder (187o); the epic poem, Huttens letzte rage (1871); and Gedichte (1882; loth ed., 19o1) . Among his novels must be specially mentioned Jurg
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Jenatsch (1876; loth ed., 1894); Der Schuss von der Kanzel (1878); Der Heilige (188o; 12th ed., 1894;
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English by M. von Wendheim,
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Thomas d
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Becket, the
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Saint, 1885);
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Die Richterin (1885); Die Versuchung
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des
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Pescara (1887); Angela
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Borgia (1891) . His shorter stories were collected in two volumes in 1885 (5th ed., 1892) . See A . Reitler, Konrad
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Ferdinand Meyer (1885) ; Lina
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Frey, K . F . Meyer's Gedichte and Novellen (1892) ; K . E .

Kranzos, K . F . Meyer (1899) ; A . Frey, K . F . Meyer (1900) ; H . Kraeger, K . F . Meyer: Quellen and Wandlungen seiner Gedichte (1901) ; B . Meyer, K . F . Meyer in der Erinnerung seiner Schwester (1904) ; Briefwechsel zwischen Luise von

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Francois and K .

F . Meyer, herausg. von A . Bettelheim (1905) ; A . Langmesser, K . F . Meyer (1905) .

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