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KONRAD See also: born at Zurich on the rrth of See also: October 1825
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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 research
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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
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After Gottfried 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
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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)
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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); Die Richterin (1885); Die Versuchung See also: des Pescara (1887); Angela Borgia (1891)
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His shorter stories were collected in two volumes in 1885 (5th ed., 1892)
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See A
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Reitler, Konrad See also: Ferdinand Meyer (1885) ; Lina
See also: Frey, K
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F
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Meyer's Gedichte and Novellen (1892) ; K
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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
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F . Meyer, herausg. von A . Bettelheim (1905) ; A . Langmesser, K . F . Meyer (1905) . |
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