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[Revised entry by Lydia L. Moland on April 11, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805) is best known for his immense influence on German literature. In his relatively short life, he authored an extraordinary series of dramas, including The Robbers, Maria Stuart, and the trilogy Wallenstein. He was also a prodigious poet, composing perhaps most famously the “Ode to Joy” featured in the culmination of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and enshrined, some two centuries later, in the European…

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