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Schiller, Friedrich von

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1759–1805, German dramatist, poet, and historian, one of the greatest of German literary figures, b. Marbach, Württemberg. The poets of German romanticism were strongly influenced by Schiller, and he ranks as one of the founders of modern German literature, second only to Goethe . The son of an army captain, Schiller attended the duke of Württemberg's military academy, the Karlsschule, and was forced by the domineering duke to study medicine. After graduating in 1780 he became an army surgeon, attached to a military life he abhorred. Turning to writing, he created a striking attack on political tyranny in Die Räuber (1781), one of the great plays of the Sturm und Drang period. Its performance (1782) in Mannheim won him public acclaim as well as the wrath of the duke, who forbade him to write. Schiller fled from his post in Stuttgart and, after great deprivation, worked as a dramatist (1783–84) for the Mannheim theater. His second youthful success, Don Carlos , appeared in 1785 and was…
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German poet, playwright, and philosopher, author of the famous 'Ode to Joy', which is featured at the conclusion of Beethoven's ninth symphony. Schiller's best known work in aesthetics consists of a series of twenty-seven letters titled On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), which he wrote to his…
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From The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
German dramatist, director, and poet, author of the finest verse *tragedies in the German language. Born in Marbach, he began writing plays while still at military academy in Württemberg, from which he was expelled in 1780. In 1782 he fled from the repressive regime in Stuttgart and eventually was…
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German poet and playwright who was briefly a surgeon before turning his attention to writing and travelling. In seinen Göttern malt sich der Mensch. Humankind is reflected in its gods. 1789 Was heit und zu welchem Ende studiert man Universalgeschichte? Alle anderen Dinge müssen; der Mensch ist das…
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Full text Article Schiller, Friedrich von (1759–1805)

From The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
Classical German poet, dramatist, and historian, who wrote one major fairy-tale play, Turandot, Prinzessin von China ( Turandot, Princess of China , 1802), based on Carlo Gozzi's play Turandot (1762). Schiller's tragicomedy concerns the gifted but cruel Princess Turandot of China who will marry only…
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Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) (engraving) (b/w photo)
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Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) engraved by Massol (d.1831) (engraving) (b/w photo)
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