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Baron Nils Erik Wilhelm af Wetterstedt (November 8, 1815 – January 1, 1887) 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.[1] In 1857 he was appointed Swedish-Norwegian envoy to the United States. He was recalled at the outbreak of the American Civil War and then served as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands, in late 1864 he returned to North America as minister to Washington and envoy to the Second Mexican Empire.[2] He ended his diplomatic career in 1870, due to his ill health, and died in Skövde in 1887.
- ^ Ekman, Ernst (1961) “Sweden and the beginning of the American Civil War” in The yearbook of American Swedish historical foundation, 1961. Philadelphia.
- ^ For a detailed study of Wetterstedt's journey and mission to Mexico, see Blumberg, Arnold (1971) The diplomacy of the Mexican empire, 1863-1867, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, ISSN 0065-9746 Nr N.S., 61:8