page_title: Friedrich Schiller
section_title: Legacy and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Friedrich Schiller / Legacy and honors
caption_attribution_description: Stuttgart Schillerplatz Schiller von Bertel Thorvaldsen 1839 Selbst fotografiert von user:Enslin
context_page_description: Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life, Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works he left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents of their philosophical vision.
context_section_description: The first authoritative biography of Schiller was by his sister-in-law Caroline von Wolzogen in 1830, Schillers Leben (Schiller's Life).
  The coffin containing what was purportedly Schiller's skeleton was brought in 1827 into the Weimarer Fürstengruft (Weimar's Ducal Vault), the burial place of the house of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in the Historical Cemetery of Weimar and later also Goethe's resting place. On 3 May 2008, scientists announced that DNA tests have shown that the skull of this skeleton is not Schiller's, and his tomb is now vacant. The physical resemblance between this skull and the extant death mask as well as to portraits of Schiller, had led many experts to believe that the skull was Schiller's.
  The city of Stuttgart erected in 1839 a statue in his memory on a square renamed Schillerplatz. A Schiller monument was unveiled on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt in 1871.
  The German-American community of New York City donated a bronze sculpture of Schiller to Central Park in 1859.  It was Central Park's first installed sculpture.
  There is a Friedrich Schiller statue on Belle Isle in Detroit Michigan. This statue of the German playwright was commissioned by Detroit's German-American community in 1908 at a cost of $12,000; the designer was Herman Matzen.
  His image appeared on the German Democratic Republic 10 Mark banknotes of the 1964 emission.
  In September 2008, Schiller was voted by the audience of the TV channel Arte as the second most important playwright in Europe after William Shakespeare.
  On 10 November 2019, Google celebrated his 260th birthday with a Google Doodle.
caption: Germany's oldest Schiller memorial (1839) on Schillerplatz, Stuttgart
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