Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin (diplomat)

Wolf Baudissin, drawn by August Grahl on January 30, 1839

Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin

Grave of Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin in the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden

Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl Graf von Baudissin (born January 30, 1789 in Copenhagen , Denmark , † April 4, 1878 in Dresden ) was a German diplomat , writer and translator .

He came from the noble family Baudissin . His parents were Count Carl Ludwig von Baudissin (* August 21, 1756 - March 1, 1814) and his wife, Countess Sophie Luise Charlotte von Dernath (* August 29, 1764; † August 9, 1828). His brother Otto Friedrich Magnus (1792-1865) became a Danish officer.

Life

After studying law and administrative sciences in Kiel , Göttingen and Heidelberg , Baudissin worked as legation secretary in the Danish civil service and stayed in Stockholm from 1810 to 1814 with his uncle Magnus von Dernath , in Vienna and in Paris . In the summer of 1813 he was imprisoned at Friedrichsort Fortress for six months because of his German sentiments . From 1823 to 1854 he was the owner of Gut Sophienhof near Preetz . He made trips to Italy, France and Greece and from 1827 onwards mostly stayed in Dresden. Here he worked with August Wilhelm Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck . Together with Tieck's daughter Dorothea Tieck , he played a major role in the Shakespeare translations that were created under Ludwig Tie's direction. Baudissin, who spoke eight languages, also translated works by Molière , Carlo Goldoni and Carlo Gozzi, among others .

His first wife was Friederike Juliane von Baudissin (born January 9, 1784, † March 15, 1836), the daughter of the diplomat Heinrich Friedrich von Baudissin . From 1840, Baudissin was married to the writer Sophie Kaskel , who came from a Jewish banking family, and owned a summer house in Wachwitz (today at Steinberg 3) in addition to his Dresden city apartment . His nephew was Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von Baudissin .

ancestry

Heinrich Günther von Baudissin (1636–1673)

Wulf Hinrich von Baudissin (1671–1748)

Sarah Margrethe von Guenderrode (1642–1728)

Heinrich Christoph von Baudissin (1709–1786)

Joachim Christoph von Buchwald (1646–1685)

Dorothea von Buchwald (1683–1709)

Abel Dorothea von Thienen (1654-1712)

Carl Ludwig von Baudissin (1756–1814)

Susanne Magdalene Elisabeth Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (1723–1785)

Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin (1789–1878)

Gerhard von der Nath (1666–1740)

Gerhard von der Nath (1700–1759)

Christine Dorothea Rantzau (1676-1717)

Friedrich Otto von der Nath (1734–1805)

Henning Friedrich von Bassevitz (1680–1749)

Sophie Louise Charlotte von Bassewitz

Anna Marie von Clausenheim (1683–1757)

Sophie von der Nath (1764-1828)

Christian Ludvig Scheel von Plessen (1676–1752)

Mogens Scheel von Plessen (1713–1749)

Charlotte Amalie Skeel (1685–1729)

Elisabeth Christina Scheel von Plessen (1744–1770)

Elisabeth Christine von Thienen (1715–1788)

Translations

• Host von Grafenberg , Wigalois or the knight with the bike
• Hartmann von Aue , Iwein with the lion , 1845
• Ben Jonson and his school - translations and explanations for Ben Jonson , 1836
• Molière , Complete Comedy Plays , 1865–1867
• Italian theater. Translated by Wolf Grafen Baudissin (6 dramas by C. Gozzi, C. Goldoni, T. Gherardi and G. de Giraud). Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1877
• William Shakespeare :
  • Antony and Cleopatra
  • The Taming of the Shrew
  • The merry women of Windsor
  • King Lear
  • Henry VIII
  • Othello
  • Titus Andronicus
  • Troilus and Cressida
  • A lot of noise about nothing

literature

• Meyers-Konversations-Lexikon. An encyclopedia of common knowledge . 3rd edition, vol. 2, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1874.
• Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld:  Baudissin, Wolf Graf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 233-236.
• Helmut Motekat:  Baudissin, Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 633 ( digitized version ).
• Bernd Goldmann: Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin 1789-1878 , Schleswig-Holstein State Library, Kiel 1979.
• Notable Wachwitz personalities: Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin , in: Wachwitz - History of a fishing and wine village, Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden, 2000, p. 142
• John Sayer: Wolf Graf Baudissin. His life - his time. A translation (Berlin 2015)

Web links

Wikisource: Wolf Graf von Baudissin  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin in the Gutenberg-DE project