Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Undine (from Latin unda "wave") is according to a theory advanced by Paracelsus, a water nymph or water spirit; a novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1811) -- see Undine (novella); an opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1816) based on Fouqué's story; another opera by Albert Lortzing (1845) also based on Fouqué's tale; an autobiographical book by Olive Schreiner (published posthumously in 1928) [1] -- see Undine (Schreiner); and a U.S. Civil War river gunboat -- see USS Undine. External links Water spirit legends Fouqué's Undine online Schreiner's Undine online This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.