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Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Died in 1898

Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was born on 11 October 1825 in Zurich, in the suburb of Unterstrass. His father, a statesman and historian, died when he was fifteen; his mother, marked by the piety of the Awakening, disapproved of his artistic ambitions, and she took her own life. Long torn between French and German, he found his vocation only late, with collections of verse and then short stories drawn from history. Settled in Kilchberg, on the shore of Lake Zurich, he died there on 28 November 1898, after a mental illness that had ended his work.

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