Biography for
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Date of Birth

10 November 1759, Marbach, Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death

9 May 1805, Weimar, Germany (tuberculosis)

Birth Name

Johann Christoph Friedrich ('von' since 1802) von Schiller

Mini Biography

Friedrich Schiller was born on the 10th of November 1759 in Marbach (Germany) as the son of a military doctor. Grown up in a very poor environment, he finally got the support of a Duke to manage he could study medicine. He served as a military doctor first, but through the efforts of Johann Wolfgang Goethe he went finally to Jena and Weimar, where he died on the 9th of May 1805. Schiller is an important german author of his time, most famous for his stage plays. They were highly acclaimed- and mostly forbidden because of their contents. His first big work, "Die Räuber", dealt with revolt of sons against their parents and environments, a quite modern topic for that time that was not accepted in every german region. Overall, he as an author is underrated due to the fact that he lived and wrote in the same time as Goethe: Schiller is mainly considered to be a good writer, but not as brilliant as Goethe.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Benjamin Stello

Spouse

Charlotte von Lengefeld

(22 February 1790 - 9 May 1805) (his death) 4 children

Trivia

Some of his plays are more famous as the librettos for noted operas than as plays - among them Rossini's "William Tell", Verdi's "Don Carlos" and Tchaikovsky's "The Maid of Orleans".

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