Wilhelm von Kotzebue (diplomat)

Wilhelm Basilius von Kotzebue (born March 19, 1813 in Reval ; † November 5, 1887 there ) was a Baltic German diplomat and writer .

Life

Wilhelm von Kotzebue was a son of the writer August von Kotzebue from his third marriage to Wilhelmina Friederike von Krusenstern and the younger brother of the circumnavigator Otto von Kotzebue . He attended the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in Saint Petersburg . From 1832 he worked for the Russian foreign service, but also devoted himself to his writing and the management of his property. Partly anonymously, partly under the name Wilhelm Augustsohn, he published dramas, among other things. From 1879 he lived as a retired privy councilor in Dresden , from 1882 on his estate in Estonia or in Dresden.

Publications (selection)

Romanian folk poetry (with Vasile Alecsandri ). Decker, Berlin 1857
Natural and artificial life: a narrative . CF Müllersche Hofbuchhandlung, Karlsruhe 1869
August von Kotzebue: Judgments of the contemporaries and the present . Baensch, Dresden 1881
Baron Fritz Reckensteg: Roman . Wilh. Grunow, Leipzig, 1885

literature

Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 751-752 .
May Redlich: Lexicon of German Baltic Literature. A bibliography . Science and Politics, Cologne 1989, p. 190
Gero von Wilpert : German Baltic literary history . CH Beck, Munich 2005, pp. 194-195
Rostislav von Kotzebue: History and genealogy of the Kotzebue family .

Web links

Literature by and about Wilhelm von Kotzebue in the catalog of the German National Library
Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Wilhelm von Kotzebue. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

↑ Kotzebue, Wilhelm . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 10, p. 665.
↑ Kotzebue, Wilhelm . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 127.

predecessor	Office	successor
Nikolai Arkadyevich Stolypin	Russian envoy in Karlsruhe 1865–1869	Felix von Meyendorff
Nikolai Fyodorowitsch Blumer	Russian envoy in Dresden 1870–1878	Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov
Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov	Russian envoy in Bern 1878–1879

personal data
SURNAME	Kotzebue, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Baltic German diplomat and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 19, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	November 5, 1887
Place of death	Reval

[1] Kotzebue, Wilhelm . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 10, p. 665.

[2] Kotzebue, Wilhelm . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 127.