Conrad Ferdinand Meyer was born on October 11, 1825 in Zurich, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for Violanta (1977), Gustav Adolfs Page (1960) and Der Schuß von der Kanzel (1942). He was married to Johanna Louise Ziegler. He died on November 28, 1898 in Kilchberg, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland.
Swiss poet and author, a master of the German-language historical
novella; his two best-known novellas are Thomas a Becket the Saint
(1880; Eng. trans., 1885) and The Monk's Wedding (1884; Eng. trans.,
1887).