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DESSOIR, LUDWIG (1810-1874)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 104 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DESSOIR, LUDWIG (1810-1874) , German actor, whose name was originally
Leopold
  Dessauer, was born on the 15th of December 1810 at Posen, the son of a Jewish tradesman. He made his first
appearance
  on the stage there in 1824 in a small part. After some experience at the theatre in Posen and on tour, he was engaged at
Leipzig
  from 1834 to 1836. Then he was attached to the municipal theatre of Breslau, and in 1837 appeared at Prague, Briinn, Vienna and Budapest, where he accepted an engagement which lasted until 1839. He succeeded Karl Devrient at Karlsruhe, and went in 1847 to Berlin, where he acted Othello and Hamlet with such extraordinary success that he received a permanent engagement at the Hof-theater. From 1849 to 1872, when he retired on a pension, he played Ito parts, frequently on tour, and in 1853 acting in London. He died on the 3oth of December 1874 in Berlin. Dessoir was twice married; his first wife,
Theresa
 , a popular actress (1810-1866), was separated from him a year after
marriage
 ; his second wife went mad on the death of her child. By his first wife Dessoir had one son, the actor Ferdinand Dessoir (1836-1892). In spite of certain
physical
  disabilities Ludwig Dessoir's genius raised him to the first rank of actora, especially as interpreter of Shakespeare's characters. G. H.
Lewes
  placed Dessoir's Othello above that of
Kean
 , and the
Athenaeum
  preferred him in this part to
Brooks
  or Macready.


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