They also had five daughters, including Christophine, the eldest.

They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents of their philosophical vision.įriedrich Schiller was born on 10 November 1759, in Marbach, Württemberg, as the only son of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller (1733–1796) and Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller (1732–1802). This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism.

They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works that he had left as sketches. 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. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ( German:, short: ( listen) 10 November 1759 – ) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. Elisabetha Dorothea Schiller, born Kodweiß (mother).

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