Francis Carr (Author)

Francis Carr (* 1924 in Warwick ; † 2009 ) was a British historian and non-fiction author.

Live and act

Carr is a trained historian and worked as the private secretary for a UK Member of Parliament. For seven years he edited the history magazine "Past and Future". He then founded a society that organized readings and music events in historical places (such as the whereabouts of great writers and composers).

He wrote a biography of Ivan the Terrible and an illustrated book on erotic art. He became known through his Mozart book, in which he argues that Mozart was murdered, not by Antonio Salieri , but by the husband of a student of Mozart's ( Maria Magdalena Hofdemel ), with whom he had a relationship. Hofdemel cut his throat the day after Mozart's death, after he had also tried to kill his wife. The evidence of the perpetrator (Carr suspects Mozart was poisoned) was systematically covered up according to Carr. Carr also examined the circumstances of Mozart's death in detail. The book appeared in the same year as the film Amadeus byMiloš Forman , who attracted a lot of attention to the topic at the time.

He has also been active in the William Shakespeare authorship debate since the 1960s . He founded the William Shakespeare Authorship Information Center in 1975 and published a bi-weekly news bulletin, Who Was Shakespeare? Carr even counts in the authorship debate on the Baconianern and also questions the authorship of Cervantes in Don Quixote . After Carr, Don Quixote and Shakespeare's plays have the same author (Francis Bacon).

Fonts

• Mozart and Constanze, reclam 2001, ISBN 3150082803 (first John Murray, London, 1983)
• Ivan the Terrible, Heyne 1990, (English original: Ivan the Terrible, Barnes and Noble 1981)
• European Erotic Art, London, Luxor Press 1972
• Who wrote Don Quixote ?, Xlibris 2004

Web links

• To Carr at the William Shakespeare Authorship Information Center
• Klaus Umbach on Carr's Mozart book ( Der Spiegel , 51/1984)