[Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad]. German philologist, born at Sprottau, Prussian Silesia, on the 25th of February 1832; died in Heidelberg on the 19th of February 1888. He was educated at the gymnasia of Gleiwitz and Breslau, and at the universities of Breslau and Berlin. In 1858 he was appointed to a professorship at Rostock, having previously been engaged in philological studies at the libraries in Nuremburg and in Paris. He also studied at London and Oxford. From 1871 until his death he was a professor in the University of Heidelberg. He was foremost among specialists in the mediæval languages and literatures of France and Germany; was an untiring worker and a prolific writer. His Investigations upon the Nibelungenlied is an exhaustive and authoritative work upon that subject. He published textbooks for beginners in the study of old French and Provençal. Others among his numerous works are German Lyric Poets from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century; The Nibelungenlied (a translation into modern German); Old French Romances and Pastorals; Outline of the History of the Literature of Provence; and The Song of Roland.
