Friedrich von Schiller

Friedrich Schiller was born in 1759 in Marbach, the son of a Württemberg officer. Admitted in 1773 to the military academy of the Duke of Württemberg, he moved there from law to medicine, then became a regimental doctor. His unauthorised trips to Mannheim earned him fourteen days' arrest; threatened with a ban on writing, he fled Stuttgart in 1782. He wrote a history of the Thirty Years' War, read Kant, taught history at Jena from 1789, then formed a bond with Goethe at Weimar, where he died in 1805, at the age of forty-five.

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