Friedrich Schiller

May 9, 1805: German poet, playwright, and historian Friedrich Schiller died of tuberculosis at age forty-five in Weimar. He wrote many philosophical papers on ethics and aesthetics, synthesizing the thought of Immanuel Kant with the thought of the German Idealist philosopher, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and he is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. His poetry, especially his "Ode to Joy", is probably best-known from its exquisite setting at the end of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

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