Freiherr de Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777–1843) was a German Romantic whose novella Undine (1811), the story of a water-nymph who marries a knight to gain a soul, only to be betrayed, became one of the most beloved and influential fairy tales of the age, inspiring operas, ballets and countless retellings. A key figure of the German Kunstmärchen and the fantastic.