Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, Württemberg, as the only son of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller and Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller.

Nov 6, 2025 · Friedrich Schiller was a leading German dramatist, poet, and literary theorist, best remembered for such dramas as Die Räuber (1781; The Robbers), the Wallenstein trilogy …

Apr 21, 2017 · Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) is best known for his immense influence on German literature. In his relatively short life, he authored an extraordinary series of dramas, …

Schiller was the great republican poet of freedom, who could adorn the ideal of a nobler, more beautiful mankind in such powerful language, that he truly found “an infallible key to the most secret recesses …

Friedrich Schiller's legacy in German literature is most prominently marked by his groundbreaking work in drama, particularly historical plays. He also made significant philosophical...

Goethe endorsed Schiller for a position as a professor of history at the University of Jena on the strength of two volumes Schiller had written on the history of the Thirty Years’ War.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, more commonly just Freidrich Schiller, was a multitalented thinker, romanticist writer, playwright, polymath, and historian who has become one of the icons of …

Friedrich Schiller, a famed dramatist, poet, and essayist, was born in Marbach, a small town in southwest Germany, to Elisabeth Kodweiss and Johann Kaspar Schiller, a lieutenant in the army of …

Together with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the German historian and writer Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), later ennobled as “von Schiller,” was the central figure in …

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered to be one of Germany's most important c...