Surname: von Salis-Seewis (Salis) Forename(s): Johann Gaudenz b. 1762. d. 1834. Nationality: Swiss. VIAF.
Poet and civil servant. Served as an officer in the Swiss Guard Regiment at Versailles
and Paris (1779-1789). Toured Germany in 1788-1789, where he met Goethe, Schiller,
Herder, and Wieland. Poems published posthumously by F. Matthisson in 1793. Biographical
information: Oxford Reference. (DD)