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See also:EKHOF, KONRAD (1720-1778) , See also:German actor, was See also:born in See also:Hamburg on the 12th of See also:August 1720. In 1739 he became a member of Johann See also:Friedrich Schonemann's (1704–1782) See also:company in See also:Luneburg, and made his first See also:appearance there on the 15th of See also:January 1740 as Xiphares in See also:Racine's Mithridate. From 1751 the Schonemann company performed mainly in Hamburg and at See also:Schwerin, where See also:Duke See also:Christian See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis II. of See also:Mecklenburg-Schwerin made them comedians to the See also:court. During this See also:period Ekhof founded a theatrical See also:academy, which, though See also:short-lived, was of See also:great importance in helping to raise the See also:standard of German acting and the status of German actors. In 1757 Ekhof See also:left Schonemann to join See also:Franz Schuch's company at See also:Danzig; but he soon returned to Hamburg, where, in See also:con-junction with two other actors, he succeeded Schonemann in the direction of the company. He resigned this position, however, in favour of H. G. See also:Koch, with whom he acted until 1764, when he joined K. E. See also:Ackermann's company. In 1767 was founded the See also:National See also:Theatre at Hamburg, made famous by See also:Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie, and Ekhof was the leading member of the company. After the failure of the enterprise Ekhof was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in See also:Weimar, and ultimately became co-director of the new court theatre at See also:Gotha. This, the first permanently established theatre in See also:Germany, was opened on the 2nd of See also:October 1775. Ekhof's reputation was now at its height; See also:Goethe called him the only German tragic actor; and in 1777 he acted with Goethe and Duke See also:Charles See also:Augustus at a private performance at Weimar, dining afterwards with the poet at the ducal table. He died on the 16th of See also:June 1778. His versatility may be judged from the fact that in the comedies of See also:Goldoni and See also:Moliere he was no less successful than in the tragedies of Lessing and See also:Shakespeare. He was regarded by his contemporaries as an unsurpassed exponent of naturalness on the See also:stage; and in this respect he has been not unfairly compared with See also:Garrick. His fame, however, was rapidly eclipsed by that of Friedrich U. L.
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See also:Schroder, His See also:literary efforts were chiefly confined to See also:translations from See also:French authors.
See H. See also:Uhde, See also:biography of Ekhof in vol. iv. of Der neue See also:Plutarch (1876), and J. Ruschner, K. Ekhofs Leben and Wirken (1872). Also H. See also:Devrient, J. F. Schonenaann and See also:seine Schauspielergesellschaft
(1895).
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