Friedrich Schiller (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (SHIHL-ur), born on November 10, 1759, at Marbach, Germany, was the son of an officer in the army of the duke of Württemberg. His parents intended that Johann should enter the ministry of the Lutheran church, and to this end they sent him to the Latin school at Ludwigsburg, then the ducal residence. Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg, in common with other semi-independent German princelings, had delusions of grandeur, and he tried to imitate the “grand style” of the Bourbons by making his court into a kind of Bavarian Versailles. He lived...
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