Schiller, Frederich

ohann Christoph Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) is an influential dramatist, poet, historian and philosopher. Friedrich Schiller's early career interests were to join the clergy. To further these ends, he attended the Latin School of Ludwigsburg. However, his father's patron, Duke Karl Eugen of Wurttemberg, insisted that Friedrich Schiller attend the military academy at Castle Solitude. Unable to further his liturgical study, Friedrich Schiller pursued legal studies and then after the school was moved to Stuttgart he began to study medicine. Friedrich Schiller's early days at the academy were r...