DAWISON, BOGUMIL (1818-1872), German actor, was born at Warsaw, of Jewish parents, and at the age of went on the stage. In 1839 he received an appointment to the theatre at Lemberg in Galicia. In 1847 he played at Hamburg with marked success, was from 1849 to 1854 a member of the Burg theatre in Vienna, and then of the Dresden court theatre. He died in Dresden on Feb. 1, 1872. Dawison was considered in Germany an actor of a new type; a leading critic wrote that he and Marie Seebach "swept like fresh gales over dusty tradition." His chief parts were Mephistopheles, Franz Moor, Mark Anthony, Hamlet, Charles V., Richard III. and King Lear.