Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann

After he completed his education at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, he went to Jena in 1798 to study law and philosophy.

However, in 1801 he left Jena and returned to Braunschweig, where he became editor of Zeitung für die elegante Welt (Newspaper for the Elegant World).

It was here that the first performance of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust (Part 1) was staged, on 19 January 1829.

The crucial evidence is a handwritten list by Klingemann found among other papers in the university library of Amsterdam by Ruth Haag.

[1] Klingemann wrote many novels and dramas, which are written in the spirit of Romanticism and enjoyed large popularity at that time.