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KONRAD FERDINAND MEYER (1825-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 349 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERDINAND See also:MEYER (1825-1898)  , Swiss poet and novelist, was See also:born at See also:Zurich on the rrth of See also:October 1825 . After studying See also:law at the university, he went for considerable periods to See also:Lausanne, See also:Geneva and See also:Paris, and in See also:Italy interested himself in See also:historical See also:research . In 1875 he settled at Kilchberg near Zurich, was created in 188o a See also:doctor philosophiae honoris causa by that university, and died at Kilchberg on the 28th of See also:November 1898 . After Gottfried See also:Keller, Konrad See also:Meyer is the most important Swiss poet of See also:modern times, though as a novelist he was perhaps more successful . His poetical See also: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 See also:Jenatsch (1876; loth ed., 1894); Der Schuss von der Kanzel (1878); Der Heilige (188o; 12th ed., 1894; See also:English by M. von Wendheim, See also:Thomas d See also:Becket, the See also:Saint, 1885); See also:Die Richterin (1885); Die Versuchung See also:des See also:Pescara (1887); Angela See also:Borgia (1891) . His shorter stories were collected in two volumes in 1885 (5th ed., 1892) . See A . Reitler, Konrad See also:Ferdinand Meyer (1885) ; Lina See also: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 See also:

Francois and K .

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

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