Zedlitz

Zedlitz, JOSEPH CHRISTIAN VON, poet, was born at Johannisberg in Austrian Silesia, 28th February 1790, and served with distinction in the 1809 campaign at the battles of Regensburg, Aspern, and Wagram. He afterwards entered the service of the Austrian foreign office, and was commissioner in Vienna for Sachsen-Weimar, Oldenburg, and other German states. He died at Vienna, 16th March 1862. His dramas—Kerker und Krone, Der Stern von Sevilla, &c.—were long popular; but his name best survives in his lyrics of reflection and narrative—e.g. Totenkränze and Die nächtliche Heerschau—and in his poetical tales, Waldfräulein and Altnordische Bilder.