Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel

Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
Painting by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schoner, 1809
Painting by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schoner, 1809
Born(1736-06-28)28 June 1736
Died1 May 1809(1809-05-01) (aged 72)
Pfeffel dictating to his daughter, image accompanying a text dedicated to Johann Georg Jacobi, 1800

Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (28 June 1736 – 1 May 1809) was a French-German writer and translator from the Pfeffel family. His texts were put to music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert. He is sometimes also known as Amédée or Théophile Conrad Pfeffel, which is the French translation of Gottlieb ("Godlove").