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 &lsquo;Henry VIII&rsquo;; &lsquo;Much Ado About Nothing&rsquo;; &lsquo;Taming of the Shrew&rsquo;; &lsquo;Comedy of Errors&rsquo;; &lsquo;Measure for Measure&rsquo;; &lsquo;All's Well that Ends Well&rsquo;; &lsquo;Antony and Cleopatra&rsquo;: &lsquo;Troilus and Cressida&rsquo;; &lsquo;Merry Wives of Windsor&rsquo;; &lsquo;Love's Labor's Lost&rsquo;; &lsquo;Titus Andronicus&rsquo;; &lsquo;Othello&rsquo;; &lsquo;King Lear.&rsquo; He published &lsquo;Ben Jonson und seine Schule&rsquo; (1836); and translation from Molière (1865-67).