1838 print FRIEDRICH SCHILLER, #197

Print from steel engraving titled Schiller, published in a volume of L'Univers Pittoresque, Paris, approx. page size 20.5 x 12.5 cm, approx. image size 9 x 8 cm.

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Schiller, (Johann Christoph) Friedrich von

born , Nov. 10, 1759, Marbach, Württemberg ; died May 9, 1805, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar

leading German dramatist, poet, and literary theorist, best remembered for such dramas as Die Räuber (1781; The Robbers), the Wallenstein trilogy (1800–01), Maria Stuart (1801), and Wilhelm Tell (1804). He was ennobled (with the addition of the von) in 1802.

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