{{Short description|German actor, theater director and theater manager}} {{Infobox person | name = Adolf Christen | image = Adolf Christen (1811-1883).jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1811|8|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1883|7|13|1811|8|7|df=y}} | death_place = Munich, German Empire | other_names = | occupation = stage actor, theater director, theater manager | years_active = | spouse = Klara Ziegler | partner = | website = }}
'''Adolf Christen''' (7 August 1811 – 13 July 1883) was a Bavarian stage actor,<ref name="Grabstein">gravestone of the family grave at the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich.</ref> theater director<ref>Braunmüller, Robert: ''Vorrat bereits vorhanden : das Bühnenbild am Münchner Hoftheater in der Ära Lachner'', in ''Franz Lachner und seine Brüder'', Tutzing, 2006, pp. 359-383.</ref> and theater manager of the old Munich "Aktientheater".<ref>[http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Ziegler+%5B2%5D ''Klara Ziegler''] in Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Vol. 20. Leipzig, 1909, {{pp.|917|918}}.</ref>
Christen was born in Berlin. When the father of the actress Klara Ziegler died he got the wardship of her. First he declined her wish to become actress but later he taught her. In 1876 he married her.<ref>from: Pataky, Sophie [http://www.zeno.org/Pataky-1898/A/Ziegler,+Clara ''Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder''], Vol. 2, Berlin, 1898, p. 463.</ref>
He died in Munich. The family grave is at the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich.<ref name="Grabstein" />
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