The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Baudissin, Wolf Friedrich Karl, Count von
BAUDISSIN, bow'dĭs-sĭn, Wolf Friedrich
Karl, Count von, German littérateur: b.
Rantzau, 30 Jan. 1789; d. Dresden, 4 April 1878.
After 1827 he resided at Dresden where he
collaborated with Tieck and Schlegel in a noted
translation of Shakespeare. The translations
contributed by Baudissin are those of ‘Henry
VIII’; ‘Much Ado About Nothing’; ‘Taming
of the Shrew’; ‘Comedy of Errors’; ‘Measure
for Measure’; ‘All's Well that Ends Well’;
‘Antony and Cleopatra’: ‘Troilus and Cressida’;
‘Merry Wives of Windsor’; ‘Love's
Labor's Lost’; ‘Titus Andronicus’; ‘Othello’;
‘King Lear.’ He published ‘Ben Jonson und
seine Schule’ (1836); and translation from
Molière (1865-67).