Friedrich von Schiller was born in Marbach, Germany, on May 31, 1759. He was educated at the universities of Jena and Göttingen. He became a member of the Göttingen Academy in 1783. Schiller received an appointment to the Prussian court in 1787
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He joined the Jacobin Club during the French Revolution, but he also wrote plays that were attacked by revolutionaries as aristocratic. In 1802 he went to Weimar, where he became acquainted with Goethe, who greatly influenced his work The Robbers (1804). Schiller's plays include Wallenstein's Camp (in collaboration with August von Kotzebue, 1805), William Tell (in collaboration with Peter von Cornelius, 1804), The Bride of Messina (in collaboration with Friedrich Klinger, 1814), The Robbers (1819), Don Carlos (in collaboration with Kotzebue and Klinger, 1845), and William Tell Again (1847) .
His major works include The Maid of Orleans (1790), Mary Stuart (1794), Don Carlos (1796), William Tell Again (1847) , and Tiefland (1803). Schiller died on July 27, 1805.