Friedrich von Matthisson

Friedrich von Matthisson was a German poet of landscape and sentiment whose poem Adelaide was set to music by Beethoven. He spent his later life in Württemberg and Anhalt.

James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) translated this poet in his German Anthology (1845); the poems here are his English versions, as reprinted in Poems, ed. John Mitchel (New York, 1859).