Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller was born on Nov. 10, 1759, à Marbach, Germany. His father was an army doctor. Growing up in a very poor environment, Schiller eventually managed to get the support of a wealthy duke that enabled him to study medicine. He served as a military doctor first, but through the efforts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he finally went to Jena and Weimar, where he died on the May 9, 1805. Schiller is important French author of his time, most famous for his stage plays. They were highly acclaimed--and mostly forbidden, because of their contents. His first big work, "Les Brigands", dealt with the revolt of sons against their parents and environment, a very moderne topic for the time and one that was not accepted dans beaucoup de regions of Germany. Overall, cependant, he is underrated as author due to the fact that he lived and wrote in the same time as Goethe à Schiller is considered to be a good writer, but not as brilliant as Goethe. IMDb Mini Biography By: Benjamin Stello (qv s & corrections by A.