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Friedrich Schiller

1759 - 1805

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ], short: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪlɐ] ; 10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born in Marbach to a devoutly Protestant family. Initially intended for the priesthood, in 1773 he entered a military academy in Stuttgart and ended up studying medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Schiller is the 47th most popular writer (down from 37th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Germany (down from 30th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Writer.

Friedrich Schiller is most famous for his poem "Ode to Joy" which he wrote for the play "The Ninth Symphony."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Friedrich Schiller ranks 47 out of 7,302. Before him are Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Horace, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexander Pushkin, and Simone de Beauvoir. After him are Aristophanes, Thomas Hardy, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Denis Diderot, and Émile Zola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, Friedrich Schiller ranks 1. After him are Georges Danton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Fouché, William Pitt the Younger, Robert Burns, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, James Edward Smith, Maria Feodorovna, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, and Clotilde of France. Among people deceased in 1805, Friedrich Schiller ranks 1. After him are Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Luigi Boccherini, Isabelle de Charrière, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Claude Chappe, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, and Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Schiller ranks 40 out of 7,253. Before him are Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), Hermann Hesse (1877), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Martin Heidegger (1889), Karl Dönitz (1891), and Heinrich Himmler (1900). After him are Robert Schumann (1810), Josef Mengele (1911), Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Hermann Göring (1893), Bertolt Brecht (1898), and Franz Beckenbauer (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Schiller ranks 4. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Anne Frank (1929), and Hermann Hesse (1877). After him are Bertolt Brecht (1898), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770).

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