The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-09
TODAY IN HISTORY
DEATH OF THE lLLUSTRIOUS GER
MAN POET.
MONDAY, MAY g, 1910.

MAN POET.
In the literature OF the world no one
holds a higher place than Friedrich Schil-
Ter, the German poet. May Is the date
of his death; In 1905. at the age OF only
IS, in the full yigor of his intellectual
powers. The sculptor Dannecker. one OF
his closest friends. upon undertaking. at
Schillcr's death, the task OF making
statue OF his friend, said '1 will make
Schiller as large life--that is. colos-
sal" This passage conveys n better Idea
than any other words could give OF the
reverential worship paid 10 the poet In
his own country.
Schiller was an intellectual giant and
a grateful people have placed him among
their deities. Full Of the spirit OF his
time, time. OF powerful genius. OF inexhaustt-
ate devotion to his own grand Ideal OF
the beautiful and true. he mastered a
Wretehed T, constitution and revelled In The
no Idle amusement. but conscience. relig-
ion, Politics and philosophy.
Schiller was born on November TO- 1853
at Marbach. His mother was a pious
worthy woman, OF the true German mold
and his father an energetic, intelligent
military man, In the service OF Karl Eu-
gen. Duke of Wurte enlbcrg. He was In
tended for the church. but when the duke
found military academy he was pressed
Into IL; An effort was made 10 turn his
gigantic mind from its natural lnclina-
Robbers appeared and made him popu-
lar he became still more restless.
The duke looked with suspicious eye
on this mad youth, who spoke his mind
SO freely; and fresh writings giving fresh
ofense he prohibited the poet from writ
Ing again, AT length he was put under
Tor stealing, without leave Of absence.
to Mannheim to see his play acted Then
he fed I'm the nisht with a friend and
became IN exile. After enduring much
hp
theater poet at Mannheim. Here he pro-
duced "Fiesco" and Don Carlos" tolled
afhnities and got further into debt.
Deot-Or, rather, uncertainty OF In
come-was Schillers bane He trusted
entirely TO his pen and Providence for
The Duke of weimar having oncour-
aged Schiller In 1855. he set off TO that
diminutlve Athens, where Jupiter Goethe
reign supreme, and staying at LelpsIc
friendship with Korner which lasted
through life and which gave us a long
to Welmar;, but Goethe kept aloof. find
Ing how diametrlcaly opposite their
minds were. Here Schiller made many
friends. as also at Jena. where he ac-
no salary. He labored hard in his dlI-
Ties. and during this period wrote his
history OF the Thirty Years War" a
oLea, delight to youth and to age. sketched his
courted and married Lotte Won Lenge-
ield' a woman who proved worthy Of
nm him He had a severe illness soon after
his marriage. from which he never re-
covered At last, In 1895, the bond OF
brotherhood was sealed which reflects
such honor on Schiller and Goethe. and
be named the 'Dloscuri"
Schiller's last drama OF william Tell"
tooR possession OF the hearts OF the peo-
pie more than any OF Its predecessors At
The end Of Its first performance all the
audience rushed out OF the house to see
their beloved poet more closely
On May .. 1916. occurred the battle Of
Resaca de la Palma. Sheridan began his
famous ride In 1864 and the Confederate
congress passed an act recoEnlzIne the
existence OF war in 1861, 1t is the birth
Gay or John Brown. the abolitionist
CSOOl; John Brougham, the actor QS1O)
The date OF the death Of Count Zinsen
dorf, founder OF the MoravIans (176Ol
and on which Count de Lally was exc