Author: Friedrich Schiller
Alternate names: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller; Frederick Schiller; Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805; Friedrich von Schiller; Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller; FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER; J. Friedrich Von Schiller; J. Friedrich Schiller; Johann Christtoph Friedrich Von Schiller; Johann Friedrich von Schiller; Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller; Von Friedrich Schiller; Johann Christoph Friedrich von SCHILLER; Ф. Шиллер; Фридрих Шиллер; Friedrich 1759-1805 Schiller
Born: 10 November 1759
Died: 9 May 1805
Bio: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German physician, playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), 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 that he had 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.