Theodor Julius Jaffé

Theodor Julius Jaffé (August 17, 1823 – April 11, 1898) was a German actor.

However, since he had a fine bass, he decided to become a singer and studied with Kugler and Joseph Elssler in Berlin, then with Giovanni Gentiluomo in Vienna.

[1] In 1844 he appeared as an opera-singer in Opava, Austrian Silesia, and then in Lübeck, Halle, Magdeburg, and Cologne.

In 1864 he went to Dresden as successor to Dawison, and was the leading actor of the royal theater there for thirty years.

The image shown is from his grave, salvaged after damage from World War II bombing.