Friedrich Schiller
Birth Date 10 November 1759
Death Date 9 May 1805
Personal Name Friedrich Schiller
Alternate Names
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
- Frederick Schiller
- Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805
- Friedrich von Schiller
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller
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.