Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin

For the field marshal of the same name, see Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin.

Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl Graf von Baudissin (30 January 1789 – 4 April 1878) was a German diplomat, writer, and translator.

Memorial marker at Trinitatis graveyard in Dresden

Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl Graf von Baudissin
Born	30 January 1789 Rantzau, Holstein
Died	4 April 1878
Occupation(s)	Diplomat, writer, translator
Notable work	Translations of William Shakespeare, Molière

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.

Translations

• Wirnt von Grafenberg, Wigalois.
• Hartmann von Aue, Iwein, 1845.
• Ben Jonson und seine Schule (Ben Jonson and his school, selected works and contextual materials), 1836.
• Molière, Complete Comedies, 1865-1867.
• William Shakespeare translations he contributed to:
  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • Comedy of Errors
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • King Lear
  • Henry VIII
  • Love's Labor's Lost
  • Measure for Measure
  • Othello
  • Taming of the Shrew
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Troilus and Cressida
  • Much Ado about Nothing

Notes

Regarding personal names: Graf was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as Count. Before the August 1919 abolition of nobility as a legal class, titles preceded the full name when given (Graf Helmuth James von Moltke). Since 1919, these titles, along with any nobiliary prefix (von, zu, etc.), can be used, but are regarded as a dependent part of the surname, and thus come after any given names (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke). Titles and all dependent parts of surnames are ignored in alphabetical sorting. The feminine form is Gräfin.

References

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Baudissin, Wolf Heinrich, Graf von" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Baudissin, Wolf Friedrich Karl, Count von" . Encyclopedia Americana.

External links

• Baudissin at Project Gutenberg (in German)