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Mosenthal Salomon Hermann
(1821—1877)

Hermann Salomon Mosenthal was an Austrian dramatist and poet also known for his opera libretti.

Mosenthal attended the gymnasium at Cassel and the Polytechnicum in Karlsruhe. In 1841 he went to Vienna as a private teacher in the house of one Moritz von Goldschmidt. In 1846 his dramatized folk-story Der Hollander Michel was produced as in 1847 was succeeded his three-act drama Die Sklavin. Neither of these had any enduring success.

In 1849 his poetical drama Cäcilia von Albano got warm approval from both public and critics; after this he had opportunities at the Burgtheater, and Cäcilia was published in Budapest in 1851. His next production, "Deborah" (Budapest, 1849; Presburg, 1875, 6th ed. 1890), was translated into the principal modern languages. In English it became famous under the title of "Leah, the Forsaken." It was first produced at the royal theater in Berlin in 1850.

A volume of Mosenthal's poems was published at Vienna in 1847, and a complete edition in 1866. He also wrote a novel, Jephtha's Tochter, which was included in the Neuer Deutscher Novellenschatz, No. 2, Munich, 1884.

Hungary, 1953, Karl Goldmark and «Konigin von Saba»

Serbia, 2007, Milka Grgurova Aleksić as Deborah