Das Kuhfeld - Campo Vaccino

View from Carl Strahlheim's Die Wundermappe, oder sammtliche Kunst- und Naturwunder des ganzen Erdballs, published in Frankfurt in several volumes between 1834 and 1838.

Johann Konrad Friederich (also known under the pseudonyms Carl Strahlheim and Karl F. Fröhlich; born December 5, 1789, in Frankfurt am Main; died May 1, 1858, in Le Havre) was a German writer, officer, and adventurer.

Friederich was the son of the Frankfurt merchant Johann Nikolaus Friederich (1762–1834) and the daughter of the bookseller and publisher Johanna Marie Wenner (1768–1828). He worked as a journalist, editor, and freelance writer, first in Berlin, Hamburg, and other places, then in Offenbach and Frankfurt from 1821 to 1823, then in Cologne, and as editor of the Phoenix in Mannheim and Stuttgart. In addition to his journalistic work, from the mid-1820s, Friederich was an immensely productive author and editor of, in part, multi-volume popular scientific works, mostly historical, encyclopedic in nature. The historical series Unsere Zeit, published from 1826 to 1831 alone, comprises 30 volumes. Friederich worked on these extensive historical and geographical collections without aspiring to independent scientific achievements, aiming to arouse the interest of young people and the uneducated public in particular and to have a general educational effect.