FLOTOW, FREIHERR FRIEDRICH FERDINAND ADOLF VON (1812-1883), German operatic composer, was born on his father's estate at Teutendorf, Mecklenburg, on April 27, 1812. His first real success was in Paris with Le Nau f rage de la Meduse at the Renaissance Theatre in 1838. Greater suc cess, however, attended his later works, Alessandro Stradella (1844), Martha (Vienna, Nov. 25, 1847), Die Grossfiirstin (185o), Indra (1853), Riibezalil (1854), Hilda (1855), Albin (1856) and L'Ombre (1870). He died on Jan. 24, 1883, at Darmstadt.
See Friedrich von Flotows Leben (1892), by his widow.