WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Schiller has received more than 2,270,421 page views. His biography is available in 113 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Friedrich Schiller is the 37th most popular writer (up from 41st in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Germany (up from 35th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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  • 113

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.39

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  • 4.13

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Friedrich Schiller ranks 37 out of 7,302. Before him are Horace, Ernest Hemingway, Alexandre Dumas, Anne Frank, Selma Lagerlöf, and Alexander Pushkin. After him are H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Hermann Hesse, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, and Stendhal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1759, Friedrich Schiller ranks 1. After him are Georges Danton, Joseph Fouché, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Feodorovna, Robert Burns, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, William Pitt the Younger, William Wilberforce, Clotilde of France, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, and Maria Theresia von Paradis. 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, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Mihrişah Sultan, and Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Schiller ranks 30 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Engels (1820), Max Planck (1858), Johannes Brahms (1833), Karl Dönitz (1891), and Anne Frank (1929). After him are Martin Heidegger (1889), Hermann Hesse (1877), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Heinrich Himmler (1900), and Angela Merkel (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Friedrich Schiller ranks 3. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), and Anne Frank (1929). After him are Hermann Hesse (1877), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Eckhart Tolle (1948).

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