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SOPHIE SCHRODER (1781-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCHRODER (1781-1868)  , See also:German actress, was See also:born at See also:Paderborn on the 23rd of See also:February 1781, the daughter of an actor, Gottfried See also:Burger . She made her first See also:appearance in See also:opera at St See also:Petersburg, in 1793 . On See also:Kotzebue's recommendation she was engaged for the See also:Vienna See also:Court See also:theatre in 1798, and here and in See also:Munich and See also:Hamburg she won See also:great successes in tragic roles like See also:Marie See also:Stuart, Phedre, See also:Merope, See also:Lady See also:Macbeth, and See also:Isabella in Tke See also:Bride of See also:Messina, which gave her the reputation of being " the German See also:Siddons." She retired in 184o and lived in See also:Augsburg and Munich until her See also:death on the 25th of February 1868 . She had married, in 1795, an actor, Stollmers (properly Smets), from whom she separated in 1799 . In 1804 she married the See also:tenor See also:Friedrich See also:Schroder, and on his death in 1825, an actor, Kunst . Mme Schroder's eldest daughter was the opera See also:singer, Wilhelmine See also:Devrient-Schroder (q.v.) . See Ph . See also:Schmidt, Sophie Schroder (Vienna, 1870) ; also Das Lexikon der deutsche ?. Biihnen-Angehorigen .

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