Hector-Jonathan Crémieux

Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (10 November 1828 – 30 September 1893) was a French librettist and playwright.

His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, known in English as Orpheus in the Underworld.

His first play, Fiesque (1852) was a historical drama, but before long he started to write comedies and then, in collaboration, operetta and opéra comique librettos.

In 1887, Crémieux became secretary-general of the Société des Dépôts et Comptes Courants, and ceased writing.

Five years later, the Société collapsed and he committed suicide by gunshot[1] in Paris.