PLATEN-HALLERMUND, August, Graf von (1796- 1835), German poet, was born at Ansbach on October 24, 1796, and died at Syracuse on December 5, 1835. His principal publications were Lyrische Blatter (1821), Sonette aus Venedig (1825), an historical fragment entitled Geschichten des Königreichs Neapel 1414-43 (1833), and a poem in nine cantos, Die Abbasiden (1835). He wrote also a number of dramas, of which may be mentioned Der gläserne Pantoffel and Die Liga von Cambrai. See vol. x. p. 545.