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Ludwig Heinrich Christian Geyer (21 January 1779 – 30 September 1821) was a German actor, playwright, and painter. Life and career. Born in Eisleben, he was the stepfather of composer Richard Wagner, whose biological father had died some six months after his birth.
Jun 1, 2006 · This was Ludwig Geyer, an actor who adopted and raised the young Richard after marrying his widowed mother, and who may well have been both the boy’s biological father and of Jewish descent.
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Nov 20, 2013 · His father Carl Friedrich Wagner, a clerk in the Leipzig police service, died of typhus six months after the composer was born, and his mother, Johanna Rosine, immediately moved in with Ludwig...
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Ludwig Geyer was a painter and actor who had been a lodger in the Wagner household for some years, shared a love of the theatre and became a father figure.
Apr 23, 2021 · His "official" father was the police actuary Carl Friedrich Wagner, but the boy's adoptive father, the actor-painter Ludwig Geyer (who adopted the child on Carl Friedrich's death in November 1813, when Wagner was just six months old), was likely his biological father and was, in all likelihood, at least part Jewish—a fact Wagner did not ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Richard's mother Johanna, the daughter of a baker, then married the painter Ludwig Geyer, who encouraged the young boy to pursue a career in music. Johanna and Geyer had long been conducting an extra-marital affair, and some historians suggest that Geyer was actually Wagner's father.
Aug 12, 2020 · Johanna then married Ludwig Geyer, a painter, and the boy was known as Richard Geyer until he was 14. Fatherless sons, uncertain of their identity, would loom large in Wagner’s operas.
