Henry Schütz Wilson (15 September 1824 – 7 May 1902) was an English writer and literary critic, and mountaineer.
[1] After education at a private school in Highgate, Schütz Wilson worked for ten years in a commercial house in London, and mastered French, German, and Italian.
He was later the assistant secretary of the Electric Telegraph Company, and retired on a pension when the business was taken over by the Post Office in 1870.
An admirer of Goethe's work, he published Count Egmont as depicted in Fancy, Poetry, and History in 1863.
[1] Wilson's three novels, The Three Paths, The Voyage of the Lady (1860), and Philip Mannington (1874), were translated into German.