Emil Devrient

Gustav Emil Devrient (4 September 1803, Berlin – 7 August 1872, Dresden) was a German actor and an occasional operatic bass.

The next year he appeared in Dresden as Kaspar in Der Freischütz, conducted by its composer Carl Maria von Weber.

[1] Devrient was famous for his roles as Marquis Posa in Schiller's Don Carlos, as Hamlet, and as Goethe's Egmont and Torquato Tasso, which he also performed in his last stage appearance.

Devrient was the first actor to receive the Knight's Cross of the Saxonian Civil Order and was made a Court Councillor (Hofrat).

The Saxonian Court Theatre made him an honorary member and had a special commemorative medaillon designed for the occasion of his retirement in 1868.