Schiller´s Family and His Friends
“Art is the daughther of freedom.”
*Here you find the people with whom Friedrich Schiller spent most of his time with – focusing on family members and friends.*
Friedrich Schiller´s Family
Schiller´s parents:
Father: Johann Kaspar Schiller, *1723, died 1796, army officer
Mother: Elisabeth Dorothea Kodweiß, *1732, died 1802
Sisters:
Elisabetha Christophina Friederika, called Christophine Schiller, later on Reinwald, *1757, died 1847
Luise Dorothea Katharina Schiller, married to Johann Gottlieb Franck, *1766, died 1836
Maria Charlotte Schiller, *1768, died 1774
Beata Friederike Schiller, *May 1773, died December 1773
Karoline Christiane, called Nanette Schiller, *1777, died 1796
Schiller´s Friends (in the time from 1759 to 1805):
Henriette von Arnim (1768-1847)
Jens Immanuel Baggesen (1764-1826), poet
Heinrich Christian Beck (1760-1803), actor
Karl Philipp Conz (1762-1827), writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
--> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller have long been friends but at the beginning, Goethe was not excited
about Schiller and his works of the literary movement of the "Storm and Stress".
Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803)
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
Charlotte von Kalb (1761-1843)
Luise Antoinette Charlotte von Lengefeld (1766-1826)
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829)
Andreas Streicher (1761-1833)
Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg (1760-1802)
Friedrich Schiller´s Family
Schiller´s parents:
Father: Johann Kaspar Schiller, *1723, died 1796, army officer
Mother: Elisabeth Dorothea Kodweiß, *1732, died 1802
Sisters:
Elisabetha Christophina Friederika, called Christophine Schiller, later on Reinwald, *1757, died 1847
Luise Dorothea Katharina Schiller, married to Johann Gottlieb Franck, *1766, died 1836
Maria Charlotte Schiller, *1768, died 1774
Beata Friederike Schiller, *May 1773, died December 1773
Karoline Christiane, called Nanette Schiller, *1777, died 1796
Schiller´s Friends (in the time from 1759 to 1805):
Henriette von Arnim (1768-1847)
Jens Immanuel Baggesen (1764-1826), poet
Heinrich Christian Beck (1760-1803), actor
Karl Philipp Conz (1762-1827), writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
--> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller have long been friends but at the beginning, Goethe was not excited
about Schiller and his works of the literary movement of the "Storm and Stress".
Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803)
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
Charlotte von Kalb (1761-1843)
Luise Antoinette Charlotte von Lengefeld (1766-1826)
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829)
Andreas Streicher (1761-1833)
Johann Rudolph Zumsteeg (1760-1802)
