Georg, Baron von Örtzen (2 February 1829–27 May 1910), also known as Karl Friedrich Theodor Ludwig, His death date is reported as about June 4, 1910, in the Annual Register ... for the year 1910 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911, p. 128). There his name is given as Georg Freiherr von Oertzen. was a German poet and prose-writer.
Life He was born at Brunn in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He served as an officer of Prussian hussars (1850–1855), entered the consular service and after employment at New York City (1879) and Istanbul (1880) was appointed to Marseille (1881), and then to Christiania (1889), retiring in 1892.
He published about thirty volumes, mostly of lyrics and aphorisms, including Gedichte ("Poems", 3rd ed. 1861), Aus den Kämpfen des Lebens (i868), Deutsche Träume, deutsche Siege (1876), (1880), Es war ein Traum (1902). His Erlebnisse und Studien in der Gegenwart (Leipzig, 1875) appeared under the pseudonym Ludwig Robert, and Nacht (Stuttgart, 1899), a collection of sonnets, under that of Stephen Ervésy.
He was acquainted with Fritz Reuter.Oertzen, Hans-Joachim von, "Oertzen," Neue Deutsche Biographie, Band 19, Berlin: Nauwach-Pagel, 1999, S. 454.
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