Zacharias Werner

Zacharias Werner was a German dramatist from KönigsbergPravida, D. (2020) 'Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias', in Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 27, pp. 839-841. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)., a Prussian civil servant whose Martin Luther (1806) made him one of the most admired dramatists of his dayPravida, D. (2020) 'Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias', in Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 27, pp. 839-841. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)., and two of whose plays Goethe staged at WeimarPravida, D. (2020) 'Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias', in Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 27, pp. 839-841. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).. His tragedy Attila, König der Hunnen (1808) was the source of Verdi's Attila (1846)Pravida, D. (2020) 'Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias', in Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 27, pp. 839-841. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)., and his one-act Der vierundzwanzigste Februar began the genre of fate tragedyPravida, D. (2020) 'Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias', in Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 27, pp. 839-841. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).. A convert to Catholicism, he was ordained in 1814 and became a celebrated preacher in Vienna during the CongressPravida, D. (2020) 'Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias', in Neue Deutsche Biographie. Vol. 27, pp. 839-841. (Accessed: 19 October 2026)..