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2 unusual facts about Alfréd Meissner


Alfréd Meissner

In 1930 Meissner was made honorary president of the conference of the International Association of Penal Law in Prague.

Maria Luisa of Spain

In musical circles, Maria Luisa is famous for her putative denigration of Mozart's opera, which she supposedly dismissed as "una porcheria tedesca" (Italian for "German swinishness"), however no claim that she made this remark pre-dates the publication in 1871 of Alfred Meissner's Rococo-Bilder: nach Aufzeichnungen meines Grossvaters, a collection of stories about cultural and political life in Prague in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.



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