Herman Bultos (19 August 1752 in

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– 30 June 1801 in Hamburg-Billwerder) was an 18th-century wine merchant and theatre director from the

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Life

The younger brother of the actor

Alexandre Bultos Alexandre Bultos (18 June 1749, Brussels - 20 September 1787) was a comic actor and theatre director from the Austrian Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire. Life The seventh child of Pierre-François Bultos and his wife Marie-Josèphe Lambert, win ...

, Herman became co-head of Brussels'

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in 1783, with Alexandre for 4 years, then alone from 1787 to 1791, then with Jean-Pierre-Paul Adam from 1791 to 1793 and again in 1794. Leaving Brussels during the troubles of the 1787-90

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, Bultos arrived in

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with several actors from the Théâtre de la Monnaie. There they founded a francophone theatre which lasted until 1798. Bultos was then taken on at the court of prince Henry of Prussia at

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, but only acted there for 2 years.

References

* Henrie Liebrecht: ''Histoire Du Theatre Francais''. Slatkine Reprints. Genève 1977. p. 353-354. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bultos 1752 births 1801 deaths Businesspeople from Brussels Directors of La Monnaie Businesspeople from the Austrian Netherlands Merchants from the Holy Roman Empire