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Friedrich Schiller's Collected Works in German, Five-Volume Bertelsmann Edition - 3,248 Pages You could pay $88.00 plus shipping per volume at Nagsuer Books , in St. Petersburg, Florida, for each of the five volumes in this set,, or pick up this handsome set, for a fraction of that: Gesammelte Werke In Fünf Bänden , von Friedrich Schiller, herausgegeben von Reinhold Netolitzky, vorwort von Walter Muschg, ergänzt durch Kommentare von Gérard Cornillet (Stuttgart: Bertelsmann ND [circa 1961]), in German, five 4 7/8" x 7 1/2" tall red faux leather hardbound, gilt design to front covers, gilt design and lettering to spines, 699, 668, 671, 571, 639pp. Minor cover wear. Volume 3 has the letter "A" stamped to the front pastedown. Otherwise, a very good+ to near fine set - clean, bright and tight About the author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 9 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last few years of his life (17881805), Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with whom he greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches; this tby gave way to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Die Xenien ( The Xenies ), a collection of short but harshly satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe verbally attacked those persons they perceived to be enemies of their aesthetic agenda.Schiller was born in Marbach, Württemberg as the only son, besides five sisters, of military doctor Johann Kaspar Schiller (17331796), and Elisabeth Dorothea Kodweiß (17321802). On 22 February 1790, he married Charlotte von Lengefeld (17661826). Four children were born between 1793 and 1804: the sons Karl and Ernst, and daughters Luise and Emilie. The last living descendent of Schiller was a grandchild of Emilie, Baron Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm, who died at Baden-Baden, Germany in 1947.His father was away in the Seven Years' War when Friedrich was born. He was named after Frederick II of Prussia (Friedrich is German for Frederick), the king of the country his father was fighting for, Prussia, but he was called Fritz by nearly everyone. Kaspar Schiller was rarely home at the time, which was hard on his wife, but he did manage to visit the family once in a while and his wife and children also visited him occasionally wver he happened to be stationed at the time. In 1763, the war ended. Schiller's father became a recruiting officer and was stationed in Schwäbisch Gmünd. The family moved with him, of course; but since the cost of living especially the rent soon turned out to be too high, the family moved to nearby Lorch. Schiller commemoration in Lincoln Park, ChicagoAlthough the family was happy in Lorch, Schiller's father found his work unsatisfying. He did, however, take young Friedrich with him occasionally.[4] In Lorch Schiller received his primary education, but the schoolmaster was lazy, so the quality of the lessons was fairly bad; tfore, Friedrich regularly cut class with his older sister. Because his parents wanted Schiller to become a pastor himself, they had the pastor of the village instruct the boy in Latin and Greek. The man was a good teacher, which led Schiller to name the cleric in Die Räuber after Pastor Moser. Schiller was excited by the idea of becoming a cleric and often put on black robes and pretended to preach.In 1766, the family left Lorch for the Duke's principal residence, Ludwigsburg. Schiller's father had not been paid for three years and the family had been living on their savings, but could no longer afford to do so. So Kaspar Schiller had himself assigned to the garrison in Ludwigsburg. The move was not easy for Friedrich, since Lorch had been a warm and comforting home throughout his childhood.He came to the attention of Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemb...
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