Full Name: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Nickname: Fritz, Friedrich Schiller

Father: Johann Kaspar Schiller
Mother: Elisabetha Dorothea Kodweis
Wife: Charlotte von Lengefeld (m. 22-Feb-1790)

Date of Birth: 10 November 1759
Birth Place: Marbach, Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 9 May 1805 (aged 45)
Death Place: Weimar, Saxe-Weimar, Germany
Cause of Death: Unspecified

Remains: Buried, Jacobs Cemetery, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar, Germany
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Education: Karlsschule
Occupation: Poet, Dramatist, Writer, Historian, Philosopher
Nationality: German

Literary Movement: Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism.

Notable Work(s): The Robbers (1781), Don Carlos (1787), The Wallenstein Trilogy, Mary Stuart (1800), William Tell (1804).

Influential German poet, philosopher, historian and dramatist Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller best known as Friedrich Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was famous for historical dramas including Maria Stuart (1800), Don Carlos (1787) and William Tell (1804). He was a friend of famous and influential author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Childhood & Early Life: Friedrich Schiller was born Marbach, Württemberg, Germany. His father, Johann Kaspar Schiller was a military doctor and his mother named Elisabetha Dorothea Kodweis. His father wanted his son to attend the military academy which Schiller hated. But insisted on his father, he joined his father's regiment when he was 21. In spite of the warnings of his father, he continued his writing. When he was 22, his first play The Robbers was performed. He wrote plays that attacked the corruption and unjust of German states.

Personal Life: Schiller married Charlotte von Lengefeld (1766–1826) on On 22 February 1790. Schiller and Charlotte had two sons {Karl Ludwig Friedrich (1793–1857) and Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm (1796–1841)} and two daughters {Karoline Luise Friederike (1799–1850) and Emilie Henriette Luise (1804–1872)}. They were born between 1793 and 1804.

Later Life & Death: Friedrich Schiller was influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Republic of Geneva-born French philosopher and novelist and German playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe. They worked together on a number of plays then. His last plays are masterpieces of historical drama. They include Mary Stuart (1800), which wrote about Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary Queen of Scots; William Tell (1804), which was about the Swiss hero of that name. Friedrich Schiller died on 9 May 1805 and he was buried at Jacobs Cemetery, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar, Germany.