Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin

Diplomat, Author

1789 – 1878

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Who was Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin?

Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl Graf von Baudissin was a German diplomat, writer, and translator.

Born in Rantzau, Holstein, in 1810 Baudissin entered the diplomatic service of the Danish government serving as secretary of legation successively in Stockholm, Vienna, and Paris. After 1827, he lived and worked in Dresden. There he collaborated on translations of William Shakespeare with August Wilhelm Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck and Dorothea Tieck. Independently, he translated Molière, Carlo Goldoni, Carlo Gozzi, and others.

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Born
Jan 30, 1789
Copenhagen
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Died
Apr 4, 1878
Dresden

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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