Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouque

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (1777–1843) was a German Romantic writer remembered chiefly as the author of the popular fairy tale Undine (1811). His dramatic trilogy Der Held des Nordens (1808–10) was the first modern dramatic treatment of the Nibelung story and influenced later works by Friedrich Hebbel and Richard Wagner. Though his works were enthusiastically received initially, they rapidly fell out of fashion after 1820.