Karl Dietrich Leonhard Engel

Karl Leonhard Dietrich Engel ( born February 21, 1824 in Oldenburg, † beginning of February 1913 in Berlin -Adlershof ) was a German musician and as a private scholar, a distinguished expert and collector of Faust literature.

Angel was trained as a violinist, and came in 1843 as a soloist and Vorgeiger to the chapel of Prince Narischkin in the government of Ryazan. Four years later he became a member of the Imperial Russian chapel in the capital Saint Petersburg.

After he had seen in 1856 in Petersburg, the performance of a work over fist very similar Polish legendary figure of Pan Twardowski, also a fist - puppet and then 1856/57 Blade 's drama "Faust" in Russian, Engel interested increasingly for the figure of Faust. after his retirement in 1860 angel returned with the title of Imperial Russian concert master to Oldenburg, where he lived intermittently until 1869. In Oldenburg, he then established contact with puppeteers to, acquired the original game books or wrote them off. 1865 and 1867 he organized stage performances fist of puppetry, in which members of the Oldenburg artists association had to move to the type of puppets. late 1869 moved to Dresden angels. From 1904 until his death in early February 1913, he lived with his son Leopold in Berlin- Adlershof.

Between 1874 and 1879 and then again from 1890 published until 1892 angel under the series title "German puppet comedies " a series of twelve monographs on the puppet theater. 1874 he published the first edition of his " Bibliotheca Faustiana. The literature of the Faust legend from 1510 to mid- 1873 " in which he systematically and chronologically all known to him and literary fist Sage Publications collected. The second edition, published in 1885 led this bibliography will continue until 1884. 1877 gave Angel a reprint of Paul Weidmann's own allegorical drama from 1775 out, the first German art drama of Faust substance. A note on Lessing as the supposed author of this drama led to numerous, sometimes polemical discussions, particularly by the Heidelberg philosopher Kuno Fischer. 1882 appeared in its second edition, " popular drama Doctor Johann Faust" with an introduction about the historical figure and a comprehensive stage history. 1887 were angels for three hundredth anniversary of the oldest Faust - book, the publication " The three hundred year-old first Faust book from 1587 " out. Also the one hundred year anniversary of the premiere of Mozart's " Don Juan " in the same year led to a larger bibliographic work. Incidentally angel spoke in magazines continuously about new publications for Faust theme.