Wolf Heinrich, count von Baudissin

Wolf Heinrich, count von Baudissin (born Jan. 30, 1789, Copenhagen, Den.—died April 4, 1878, Dresden, Ger.) was a German diplomat and man of letters who with Dorothea Tieck was responsible for many translations of William Shakespeare and thus contributed to the development of German Romanticism. Baudissin served in the diplomatic corps in Stockholm, Paris, and Vienna and traveled in Italy, France, Greece, and Turkey. In 1827 he settled in Dresden, where he spent the rest...