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Friedrich Schiller

(1759—1805) German dramatist, poet, historian, and critic

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Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von (1759)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics

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Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Art & Architecture, Philosophy
Length:
5,512 words

(1759–1805), a poet, playwright, and aesthetician of the classical age of German literature, the so-called age

Schiller, Friedrich

Schiller, Friedrich (1759–1805)   Reference library

Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
Length:
2,452 words

(1759–1805), German writer.

Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller was born the son of a low-ranking army officer in Marbach

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich (1759–1805)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
1,376 words

(Marbach, 1759–1805, Weimar),

generally referred to as Friedrich Schiller, who was elevated to the nobility as von Schiller

Schiller, Friedrich von

Schiller, Friedrich von (1759–1805)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature
Length:
131 words

who wrote one major fairy-tale play, Turandot, Prinzessin von China (Turandot, Princess of China, 1802), based on

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von

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World Encyclopedia

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Encyclopedias
Length:
80 words

His early blank verse plays, such as The Robbers (1781) and Don Carlos (1787), are classics

Schiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von

Schiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von   Reference library

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2003
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
347 words
(1759–1805), outstanding German poet and dramatist. He was only 22 when his first play Die Räuber, about the hostility between two brothers, was accepted for the theatre at ... ... More
Schiller, Friedrich

Schiller, Friedrich   Reference library

Michael Patterson

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
915 words
(1759–1805) German dramatist, poet, aesthetician, director, and professor of history, author of arguably the finest verse tragedies in the German language. Born in Marbach, he ... More
Schiller, Friedrich

Schiller, Friedrich   Reference library

The Companion to Theatre and Performance

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Current Version:
2010
Subject:
Performing arts, Theatre
Length:
444 words
(1759–1805) German dramatist, director, and poet, author of the finest verse *tragedies in the German language. Born in Marbach, he began writing plays while still at military ... More
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M. J. Inwood

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Philosophy
Length:
421 words
(1759–1805). German philosopher, poet, and dramatist, who developed Kant's ethics and aesthetics towards post-Kantian idealism. His main concern was the role of art and beauty in ... More
Schiller, Friedrich von

Schiller, Friedrich von (1759–1805)   Reference library

Sue Lonoff

The Oxford Companion to the Brontes

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Current Version:
2011
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (19th century)
Length:
193 words

a seminal figure in the German Romantic movement. Charlotte Brontë read his Ballads in 1843 at the Pensionnat *Heger...

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