Otto Gildemeister, a German writer, born in Bremen, March 13, 1823. He studied at the" university of Bonn, and became in 1845 connected with and in 1850 editor-in-chief of the Weserzeitung. In 1852 he was chosen secretary of the Bremen senate, in 1857 senator, in 1866 representative in the diet of the North German confederation, and in October, 1871, burgomaster. He has translated into German the complete works of Byron (6 vols., Berlin, 1864), and many plays of Shakespeare for Bodenstedt's complete edition; and his version of Shakespeare's sonnets was published in 1871.