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Friedrich Schiller
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Age45 (age at death)
Birthday 10 November, 1759
Birthplace Marbach am Neckar, Germany
Died 9 May, 1805
Place of Death Weimar, Germany
Eye Color Brown - Dark
Hair Color Blonde
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Nationality German
Occupation Writer
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Friedrich Schiller Writer - Born November 10, 1759 in Marbach am Neckar, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]

Died May 9, 1805 in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire [now Thuringia, Germany] (tuberculosis)

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

Mini Bio (1) Friedrich Schiller was born on Nov. 10, 1759, in Marbach, Germany. His father was an army doctor. Growing up in a very poor environment, Schiller eventually managed to get the support of a wealthy duke that enabled him to study medicine. He served as a military doctor first, but through the efforts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe he finally went to Jena and Weimar, where he died on the May 9, 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 the revolt of sons against their parents and environment, a very modern topic for the time and one that was not accepted in many regions of Germany. Overall, though, he is underrated as an author due to the fact that he lived and wrote in the same time as Goethe: Schiller is considered to be a good writer, but not as brilliant as Goethe.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Benjamin Stello (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)

Spouse (1) Charlotte von Lengefeld (22 February 1790 - 9 May 1805) ( his death) ( 4 children)

Trivia (1) Some of his plays are more famous as the librettos for noted operas than as plays - among them Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture", Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Carlos" and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Maid of Orleans".

Personal Quotes (2) 1. The nation is worthless that will not, with pleasure, venture all for its honor. 2. Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain.

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