Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German physician, playwright, poet, and philosopher.
26 Facts About Friedrich Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller grew up in a very religious Protestant family and spent much of his youth studying the Bible, which would later influence his writing for the theatre.
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Friedrich Schiller's father was away in the Seven Years' War when Friedrich was born.
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Friedrich Schiller was named after king Frederick the Great, but he was called Fritz by nearly everyone.
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Kaspar Friedrich Schiller was rarely home during the war, but he did manage to visit the family once in a while.
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The quality of the lessons was fairly bad, and Friedrich Schiller regularly cut class with his older sister.
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Father Moser was a good teacher, and later Friedrich Schiller named the cleric in his first play Die Rauber after him.
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Friedrich Schiller's father had not been paid for three years, and the family had been living on their savings but could no longer afford to do so.
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Friedrich Schiller entered the Karlsschule Stuttgart, in 1773, where he eventually studied medicine.
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Later, Friedrich Schiller would be made an honorary member of the French Republic because of this play.
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Friedrich Schiller fled Stuttgart in 1782, going via Frankfurt, Mannheim, Leipzig, and Dresden to Weimar.
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Friedrich Schiller remained in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar until his death at 45 from tuberculosis in 1805.
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The first authoritative biography of Friedrich Schiller was by his sister-in-law Caroline von Wolzogen in 1830,.
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The coffin containing what was purportedly Friedrich Schiller's skeleton was brought in 1827 into the Weimarer Furstengruft, the burial place of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in the Historical Cemetery of Weimar and later Goethe's resting place.
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The physical resemblance between this skull and the extant death mask as well as to portraits of Friedrich Schiller, had led many experts to believe that the skull was Friedrich Schiller's.
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Friedrich Schiller's image appeared on the German Democratic Republic 10 Mark banknotes of the 1964 emission.
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In September 2008, Friedrich Schiller was voted by the audience of the TV channel Arte as the second most important playwright in Europe after William Shakespeare.
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Some Freemasons speculate that Friedrich Schiller was a Freemason, but this has not been proven.
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Friedrich Schiller synthesized the thought of Immanuel Kant with the thought of the German idealist philosopher, Karl Leonhard Reinhold.
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Friedrich Schiller elaborated upon Christoph Martin Wieland's concept of, a human being whose emotions have been educated by reason, so that are no longer in conflict with one another; thus beauty, for Schiller, is not merely an aesthetic experience, but a moral one as well: the Good is the Beautiful.
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The "gods" in Friedrich Schiller's poem are thought by modern scholars to represent moral and aesthetic values, which Friedrich Schiller tied to Paganism and an idea of enchanted nature.
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Friedrich Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright.
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Friedrich Schiller wrote that "a great moment has found a little people"; he wrote the Letters as a philosophical inquiry into what had gone wrong, and how to prevent such tragedies in the future.
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The conflict between man's material, sensuous nature and his capacity for reason, Friedrich Schiller resolves with the happy union of Formtrieb and Sinnestrieb, the "play drive", which for him is synonymous with artistic beauty, or "living form".
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Friedrich Schiller's focus on the dialectical interplay between Formtrieb and Sinnestrieb has inspired a wide range of succeeding aesthetic philosophical theory, including notably Jacques Ranciere's conception of the "aesthetic regime of art", as well as social philosophy in Herbert Marcuse.
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Documents and other memorials of Friedrich Schiller are in the Goethe and Friedrich Schiller Archive in Weimar.