Henry Steel Olcott, (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, most well known as the first person of western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped Buddhism into a new renaissance. He is still honored in Sri Lanka for these efforts.
... des Hässlichen (1853)
Die Poesie and ihre Geschichte (1885)
Studien (1839-47)
Neue Studien (1875-78).
He published also an autobiography entitled Von ...