See also:MEYER, KONRAD See also:FERDINAND (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 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
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
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 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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