Heinrich Bulthaupt (October 26, 1849 – August 20, 1905) was a German poet, dramatic author, and lawyer, as well as librarian of his native town, Bremen.
Heinrich Bulthaupt's first play was an iambic tragedy, "Saul" that he had already begun to write as a high school student, premiering in 1870 in his hometown of Bremen.
Heinrich Bulthaupt acquired great recognition with his theatrical writings, but he also wrote pieces in which he discussed material of other writers.
The fourth volume is dedicated to the plays of Henrik Ibsen, Ernst von Wildenbruch, Hermann Sudermann and Gerhart Hauptmann.
Bulthaupt furnished the text the secular oratorios Achilleus[1] and Leonidas[2][3] by Max Bruch as well as an oratorio by Georg Vierling He prepared adaptations of Shakespearean dramas (Cymbeline, 1885, and Timon von Athen, 1894); and wrote a number of poetic works (Durch Frost und Gluten, (1892; new edition, 1904), and criticisms, notably Shakespeare und der Naturalismus, as well as some novelettes.