Alfred Meissner poet from Czech Republic was born on October 15, 1822, had 62 years and died on May 29, 1885. Poems were written mainly in Czech language. Dominant movement is other.
Biography
Alfred Meissner (15 October 1822 Teplitz - 29 May 1885 Bregenz) was an Austrian poet.
Biography
He is a grandson of the voluminous miscellaneous author August Gottlieb Meissner (1753-1807). He studied medicine, taking his degree at Prague in 1846. To elude the Austrian censorship, he published in the same year at Leipzig his epic poem Ziska (10th ed., 1867). He long resided chiefly in Paris, and returned to Prague in 1850, where he and Moritz Hartmann were the principal representatives of the liberal school of German poetry in Bohemia, a 10th edition of his Gedichte appearing in 1867. ..
