Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Baudissin, Ulrich, Count von
BAUDISSIN, Ulrich, Count von, a German author, born Feb. 22, 1816, at Greifswald, Prussia, passed his childhood in his parents' house in Jütland, and then studied for the military profession in the academy for cadets at Copenhagen, from which he passed into the Danish Army. Accordingly he fought on the Danish side in the first war between Germany and Denmark, and he received in 1849, at Duppel, a severe wound, the results of which caused him in 1861, he being then a Major, to procure his discharge from the service. He thereupon went to South Germany, and resided first at Munich, then at Constance, and afterwards at Cannstadt, devoting himself to literary pursuits. He soon acquired a reputation as a dramatic poet and novelist. His comedies were published in a collected form in the "Kleinigkeiten für das deutsche Theater," 1863. His principal novel is "Wanderungen durch Jahrtausende," descriptive of life and manners in past times in Swabia.