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Article: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The German dramatist, poet, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) ranks
as one of the greatest of German literary figures. He was a founder of modern German literature.
Friedrich von Schiller was born at Marbach, W
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rttemberg, on Nov. 10, 1759. His father, Johann Kaspar Schiller, was an army captain in the service of Duke Karl Eugen of W
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rttemberg. His mother, Elisabeth Dorothea, the daughter of a Marbach innkeeper, was a gentle and religious person. Schiller had four sisters, one older and three younger.
As a boy, Schiller, under the influence of Philipp Ulrich Moser, a parson, wanted to become a ...