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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer |
 | | Critics agree that Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was the most ambivalent, complex, and yet one of the most fascinating realists in late nineteenth-century literature. |
 | | From the 1870s to the early 1890s Meyer “shaped” his poetry and 13 historical narratives, “structured” on the historical backgrounds of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and one novella, his most personal one, Das Leiden eines Knaben [The Sufferings of a Young Boy, 1883], on the times of Louis XIV. |
 | | Conrad Meyer was born on 11 October 1825 in Zurich. |
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