Devrient (artist family)

Devrient ([ dəˈfri: nt ] (origin from the Flemish word friend) or [ dəvriˈɛ̃: ]) is a family of artists and consists of the following people:

• Philipp De Vrient (1738–1808) ⚭ Esther Charlotte de Missy, ⚭ Maria Val
  • Tobias Philipp Devrient (1772–1836) ⚭ Marie Charlotte Prittschow
    • Karl August Devrient (1797–1872), German theater actor, ⚭ Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804–1860), German opera singer, ⚭ Johanna Block
      • Friedrich Devrient (1827–1871), German actor
      • Max Devrient (1857–1929), German actor, ⚭ Babette Devrient-Reinhold (1863–1940), German-Austrian actress
    • Eduard Devrient (1801–1877), German actor and theater director
      • Otto Devrient (1838-1894), German actor
        • Hans Devrient (1868–1928), German Germanist and theater scholar
        • Ernst Devrient (1873–1948), Thuringian state archivist and genealogist
    • Gustav Emil Devrient (1803–1872), German actor, ⚭ Dorothea Devrient (1804–1882), German theater actress and singer
    • Leontine Mathilde Devrient (born June 28, 1809 in Berlin, † October 25, 1884 in Leipzig) ⚭ Staegemann
      • Max Staegemann (1843–1905), actor, chamber singer and theater manager
      • Eugen Staegemann (1845–1899), German actor
  • Ludwig Devrient (1784–1832), German actor ⚭ Margarete Neefe (1787–1808)
    • Emilie Devrient (1808–1857), German actress, ⚭ David Höffert

Has nothing to do with this family of artists:

• Paul Devrient (actually Walter Stieber ; 1890–1973), German opera tenor and voice and rhetoric teacher of Adolf Hitler in 1932

See also

• List of well-known families of actors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ August Müller's General Dictionary of the Pronunciation of Foreign Proper Names . E. Haberland, Leipzig 1903, p. 148 ( archive.org ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Her mother Sophie Schröder (1781–1861) was also a singer and actress. She was also the aunt of the actor Friedrich Ludwig Schmidt .