The New International Encyclopædia/Anschütz, Heinrich

ANSCHÜTZ, än'shụts, Heinrich (1785-1865). A German actor. He was born at Luckau, and studied at the University of Leipzig, in which city he saw the performances of Iffland, Esslair, and other distinguished actors who occasionally played there. He began his career as an actor at Nuremberg in 1807, and finally became a member of the Hofburgtheater in Vienna. He played both heroic and character parts, and was for many years the central figure at the famous play-house with which he was so long identified. He published an autobiography under the title of Heinrich Anschütz, Erinnerungen aus dessen Leben und Wirken (Vienna, 1866).