Bogumil Dawison, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bogumil Dawison

German actor

Date of Birth: 15-May-1818

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1872

Profession: actor, stage actor

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Bogumil Dawison (May 15, 1818 – February 1, 1872) was a German actor. He was born in Warsaw, of Jewish parents.
At the age of nineteen he went on the stage.
In 1839 he received an appointment to the theater of Lemberg in Galicia.
In 1847 he played at Hamburg with marked success.
From 1849 to 1854 he was a member of the Burg theatre in Vienna, and then became connected with the Dresden court theater.
In 1864 he was given a life engagement, but later resigned it.
He visited the United States in 1866.
He died in Dresden in 1872.Dawison was considered in Germany an actor of a new type; a leading critic wrote that he and Marie Seebach swept like fresh gales over dusty tradition, and brushing aside the monotony of declamation gave to their roles more character and vivacity than had hitherto been known on the German stage.
His chief parts were Mephistopheles, Franz Moor, Mark Antony, Hamlet, Charles V, Richard III and King Lear.



Description	Austrian painter
Date of birth/death	14 April 1803	14 January 1887 / 15 January 1887
Location of birth/death	Vienna	Vienna
Work location	Vienna, Rome, Paris
Authority control	: Q452397 VIAF: 59357071 ISNI: 0000 0000 8138 857X ULAN: 500030473 LCCN: nr90000142 WGA: AMERLING, Friedrich von WorldCat