Adolph Konrad Fiedler or Conrad Fiedler (23 September 1841 – 13 June 1895) was a German art historian, art collector and writer. Fiedler was one of the most important German
art theorist of the 19th century.
Fiedler was born in
Oederan
Oederan is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany.
Geography
Oederan is situated 14 km southwest of Freiberg, 17 km east of Chemnitz and about 50 km west of Dresden.
The town includes the villages of Börn ...
. He studied law at the
Heidelberg University
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and the
University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...
. In 1876 Fiedler married Mary Meyer. In 1895 Konrad Fiedler died in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
by the fall from a balcony. He was buried in the family tomb on the estate
Crostewitz.
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1841 births
1895 deaths
People from Oederan
People from the Kingdom of Saxony
German art historians
German male writers
Writers from Saxony
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