DINGELSTEDT, FRANZ VON (1814-1881), German poet and dramatist, was born at Halsdorf, in Hesse Cassel, on June 3o, 1814. He studied at Marburg, became schoolmaster at Cassel (1836) and at Fulda (1838) . In 1839 he produced a novel, Unter der Erde, and in 1841 the book by which he is best remembered, the Lieder eines kosmopolitischen Nachwachters. These poems, which expressed the liberal aspirations of his time, determined his career, and in 1841 he joined the staff of the Augsburger allge meine Zeitung. In 1843 the satirist of German princes accepted, to the general surprise, the appointment of private librarian to the king of Wurttemberg, and in the same year he married the Bohe mian opera singer, Jenny Lutzer. After the production of his trag edy, Das Haus der Barneveldt (185o), he became intendant at the court theatre at Munich, but in 1856 was suddenly dismissed on the most frivolous charges, the real authors of his disgrace being the ultramontane clique at court. Through the influence of Liszt he became intendant of the court theatre at Weimar, where he re mained until 1867; under his management there all Shakespeare's historical plays were presented in an unbroken cycle. In 1867 he became director of the court opera house in Vienna, and in 1872 of the Hofburg theatre, a position he held until his death on May 15, 1881. Among his other works may be noticed an autobiographi cal sketch of his Munich career, entitled Miinchener Bilderbogen (1879), Die Amazone, a society novel (1869), translations of sev eral of Shakespeare's comedies, and several writings dealing with questions of practical dramaturgy. He was ennobled in 1867 by the king of Bavaria, and in 1876 was created Freiherr by the em peror of Austria. Dingelstedt was one of the founders of the Ger man Shakespeare Society.