biography
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Konrad von Würzburg
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pronunciation:
[konraht fon vürt
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1225–87)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Würzburg, SC Germany. Of bourgeois origin and learned, his patrons were mostly patricians and church dignitaries, and he travelled widely in the upper Rhine region before settling in Basel in c.1270. He brought various mediaeval genres to technical perfection (including the initiation of heraldic Wappendichtung) and acted as a bridge to the bourgeois Meistersinger. His works include the courtly verse tales Herzmaere and Der Schwanritter (c.1255–7, influenced by Gottfried von Straßburg) and Der Welt Lohn and Heinrich von Kempten (c.1267). He also wrote the epic Engelhard (c.1260), the Marian hymn Die goldene Schmiede (c.1275), the verse romance Partonopier und Meliur (1277), and the unfinished epic Trojanerkrieg. |
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