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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ( German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ], short: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪlɐ] ⓘ; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German polymath and poet, playwright, historian, philosopher, physician, lawyer. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical ...
Peter Oswald’s version of Friedrich Schiller’s “Mary Stuart,” whose run at New York’s Broadhurst Theater ends in mid-August, succeeds in making this 1801 warhorse of the German Classic crackle on a modern stage. Schiller (1759“1805) was guilty of historical distortions no worse than those in Cate Blanchett’s “Elizabeth” films, and his treatment of character is infinitely ...
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ple. Schiller presents Moses as an alter ego and an archetypal poet who creates fiction to correct superstitions and bring his disciples closer to the truth. While Reinhold justifies the inexplicable emergence of the Bible as divine intervention, Schiller goes much further in secularizing the story by making
When they arrived at Schiller's house, Goethe went in with him, expounding the Theory of Metamorphoses with great warmth. Taking up a pen, he made a rapid sketch of the typical plant. Schiller listened with great attention, seizing each point clearly and rapidly, but shaking his head at last, and saying: "This is not an observation, it is an Idea."
Schiller himself reported that one of the major sources for this essay was Br. Decius’s work, The Hebrew Mysteries, or the Oldest Religious Freemasonry (Leipzig: 1788). This English translation, by George Gregory, will appear in volume two of Schiller: Poet of Freedom , an anthology of Schiller’s, now being prepared for publication by the ...
He was the only son of a military doctor named Lieut. Johann Kaspar Schiller and his wife, Elisabeth Dorothea Kodwiß. Alongside Friedrich, the couple had five daughters. His family was very religious, and he spent many hours of his youth studying the Bible. Religion would later become a major theme in his work.
Jan 6, 2015 · Friedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, Württemberg as the only son of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller (1733–96) and Elisabeth Dorothea Kodweiß (1732–1802). Schiller grew up in a very religious family and spent much of his youth studying the Bible, which would later influenced his dramatic style of writing as a ...
