Engelbert Röntgen

Engelbert Röntgen (30 September 1829 – 12 December 1897)[1] was a German violinist, for many years concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

He was born in Deventer in the Netherlands, the son of Johann Röntgen, a German merchant, and his Dutch wife.

He entered the Conservatorium der Musik at Leipzig in 1848, where he was a pupil of the violinist Ferdinand David.

[2][3] In 1861 he acquired the Lipinski Stradivarius; the violin remained with Röntgen and his descendants for three generations.

[3] Röntgen married Friedericke Pauline Klengel, daughter of Moritz Klengel [de], himself concertmaster at the Gewandhaus for many years.