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LOUIS SCHNEIDER (1805-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 345 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS See also:SCHNEIDER (1805-1878)  , See also:German actor and author, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 29th of See also:April 18o5, the son of See also:George See also:Abraham See also:Schneider (1770-1839) . At an See also:early See also:age he was engaged at the Royal See also:Theatre, Berlin, where he soon See also:rose to See also:play leading See also:comedy parts . His reputation as a comedian See also:grew with his success in such roles as Zierl in the Einfahrt vom Lande, See also:Peter in the Kapellmeister von Venedig, Schikaneder in the Schauspieldirektor and Basileo in See also:Figaro's Hochzeit, and he became the favourite of Berlin . In 1845 he was appointed See also:head of the Royal See also:opera in Berlin . But his bold patriotic couplets and impromptus during the revolutionary See also:year 1848 necessitated his retirement, and thereafter he translated and adapted for the See also:stage See also:Mozart's Cosi See also:fan tutti; published, under the See also:pseudonym " L . W . Both," Das Buhnenrepertoire See also:des Auslandes; and founded, as a result of his experiences as a soldier in the Danish See also:war of 1849, the periodical Der Soldatenfreund . He also wrote Geschichte der Oper and des Opernhauses in Berlin (1845-1852) . Soon after his retirement he was appointed reader to See also:King See also:Frederick See also:William IV. of See also:Prussia, and subsequently he received the See also:title of Geheimen Hofrat . He continued to enjoy the favour of the See also:court, and, as correspondent of the Staatsanzeiger, was attached to the headquarters' See also:staff of the Prussian See also:army during the See also:campaign of 1866; and, by See also:special invitation, accompanied the See also:emperor William during the war of 187o . Schneider also wrote a novel . Das Lose See also:Gluck, and several volumes of reminiscences: See also:Konig Wilhelm (1869), Kaiser Wilhelm, 1867—1871 (1875) .

He died at See also:

Potsdam on the 16th of See also:December 1878 . See his See also:posthumous See also:memoirs, Aus meinem Leben (Berlin, 1899-188o), and Aus dem Leben Kaiser Wilhelms (1888), which caused some sensation on their publication .

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