On this part of the Albert Lortzing website you will find as much biographical information as I am able to collect. View the Timetable for a quick tour. The Chronology page is more extensive and will be continuously "under construction" - as soon as I find more data I will update this page. I have published here the out of print Lortzing biography by Georg Richard Kruse (1914). I transcribed the original German Gothic letter, which makes it more legible, but it is still in German. A genealogy report, generated by the adware program "GenoPro" is available on this website. I also used this program to put all the data in a more complete family tree; you may download (click the right button of your mouse) the gno-file here if you think you can use it. If you find any omissions, please, let me know.  My gallery of Lortzing portraits contains some rare pictures of Lortzing. A Lortzing Pilgrimage: visit the houses where Lortzing and his family lived. Finally I will maintain an index of important people in Lortzing's life.