Nils Erik Wilhelm af Wetterstedt.

About Nils Erik Wilhelm af Wetterstedt

Baron Nils Erik Wilhelm Wetterstedt, ennobled as af Wetterstedt was a Swedish diplomat and translator of opera libretti. In his early career he worked in the Swedish Foreign Office and had diplomatic posts in Vienna, Berlin, the Hague and Copenhagen. In 1857 he was appointed Swedish-Norwegian resident minister to the United States. He was recalled at the outbreak of the American Civil War and then served as envoy extraordinaire and minister plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, in late 1864 he returned to North America as envoy to Washington and envoy to Mexico. He ended his diplomatic career in 1870, due to his ill health, and died in Skövde in 1887.