Johan Anton Lindqvist (25 December 1759 - 17 September 1833) was a Swedish stage actor and theater director.

Biography

Lindqvist was born at

Ystad Ystad () is a town and the seat of Ystad Municipality, in Scania County, Sweden. Ystad had 18,350 inhabitants in 2010. The settlement dates from the 11th century and has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre, and tourist attracti ...

, Sweden. He was active in the theater party of

Carl Seuerling Carl Gottfried Seuerling (1727-1795) was a German born, Swedish stage actor and theater director. He was the director of the Seuerling theater Company in 1768-93 and as such the leader of one of only two professional Swedish language theater com ...

in 1788. He was the director of the Lindqvist theater Company in 1793-1820. He played an important role in Swedish theater life outside of

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, being the leader of one of the largest theater companies in Sweden. Lindqvist and his company maintained the operations of the theatres in

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

. He was the director of the theatres

Comediehuset Comediehuset (The Comedy House) or Sillgateteatern (The Herring-Street Theatre) was a Swedish theatre, active in Gothenburg from 1779 until 1833. It was the first permanent Public theatre in Gothenburg and the only one until 1816. It was located a ...

(1796-1800 and 1810–16) and Segerlindska teatern (1816–20) during the attempts to make them permanent theatres. He died in

in 1833.

References

Other sources

* Schöldström, Birger (1889). Seuerling och hans "comædietroupp" : ett blad ur svenska landsortsteaterns historia. Stockholm. Libris 281714 * Wilhelm Berg
Anteckningar om Göteborgs äldre teatrar / Band 1. 1690-1794
(1896-1900) * Wilhelm Berg

(1896-1900) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lindqvist, Johan Anton 1759 births 1833 deaths Swedish theatre directors 18th-century Swedish male actors 19th-century Swedish male actors Swedish male stage actors 18th-century theatre managers 19th-century theatre managers People from Ystad Male actors from Skåne County