Nils Erik Wilhelm af Wetterstedt

Baron Nils Erik Wilhelm af Wetterstedt (November 8, 1815 – January 1, 1887) was a Swedish diplomat and translator of opera lyrics. 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.

References

1. Ekman, Ernst (1961) “Sweden and the beginning of the American Civil War” in The yearbook of American Swedish historical foundation, 1961. Philadelphia.
2. 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

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Georg Sibbern	Resident Minister of Sweden to the United States 1858–1860	Succeeded by Carl Edward Vilhelm Piper
Preceded by Christian Adolf Virgin	Envoy of Sweden to the Netherlands 1860–1864	Succeeded by Carl Fredrik Palmstierna
Preceded by Carl Edward Vilhelm Piper	Envoy of Sweden to the United States 1864–1870	Succeeded by Oluf Stenersen
Preceded by None	Envoy of Sweden to Mexico 1864–1867	Succeeded by None (until 1913)