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See also:

• DEVRIENT

DEVRIENT (1838-1894)  , another actor, born in Berlin on the 3rd of October 1838, was the son of Philipp Eduard Devrient . He joined the stage in 1856 at Karlsruhe, and acted successively in Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig, until he received a fixed appointment at Karlsruhe, in 1863 . In 1873 he became stage manager at Weimar, where he gained great praise for his mire en scene of Goethe's Faust . After being manager of the theatres in Mannheim and Frankfort he retired to Jena, where in 1883 he was given the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy . In 1884 he was. appointed director of the court theatre in Oldenburg, andin 1889 director of dramatic plays in Berlin . He died at Stettin on the 23rd of June 1894 .