Alfred Meissner, Carte de Visite. Bohemian - German Writer.

Alfred Meissner (1822 - 1885), Carte de Visite with decorative reverse.

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 dedicate appearing in 1867.

Some of his effusions, especially Der Sohn des Atta Troll (1850), abound with the peculiar sarcasm and pathos in which Heine excelled, and he published Erinnerungen an Heine (1854).