Friedrich Schiller

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Friedrich Schiller


Born
in Marbach am Neckar, duchy of Württemberg
November 10, 1759

Died
May 09, 1805

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People best know long didactic poems and historical plays, such as Don Carlos (1787) and William Tell (1804), of leading romanticist German poet, dramatist, and historian Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

This philosopher and dramatist struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe during the last eighteen years of his life and encouraged Goethe to finish works that he left merely as sketches; they greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics and thus gave way to a period, now referred to as classicism of Weimar. They also worked together on Die Xenien ( The Xenies ), a collection of short but harsh satires that verbally attacked perceived enemies of the
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Quotes by Friedrich Schiller  (?)
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“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
Friedrich Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

“The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.”
Friedrich von Schiller, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

“To save all we must risk all.”
Friedrich von Schiller, Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy

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Sefiller - Victor Hugo 1862, 1724 sayfa
 
  22 votes 33.8%

Middlemarch - George Eliot 1871, 952 sayfa
 
  21 votes 32.3%

Wilhelm Tell - Friedrich Schiller 1804, 176 sayfa
 
  13 votes 20.0%

Pinokyo - Carlo Collodi 1880, 200 sayfa
 
  9 votes 13.8%

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