The Life of Friedrich Schiller
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Schiller und sein Väterliches Haus. Von Ernst Julius Saupe, Subconrector am Gymnasium zu Gera. Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Weber, 1851.
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Schiller's Leben von Gustav Schwab (Stuttgart, 1841).
Schiller's Leben, verfasst aus, &c. By Caroline von Wolzogen, born von Lengefeld (Schiller's Sister-in-law): Stuttgart und Tübingen, 1845.
Schiller's Beziehungen zu Eltern, Geschwistern und der Familie von Wolzogen, aus den Familien-Papieren. By Baroness von Gleichen (Schiller's youngest Daughter) and Baron von Wolzogen (her Cousin): Stuttgart, 1859.
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See Life of Friedrich (Book xix. chap. 8; Book xviii. chap. 10), and Schiller Senior's rough bit of Autobiography, called 'Meine Lebensgeschichte,' in Schiller's Beziehungen zu Eltern, Geschwistern und der Familie von Wolzogen (mentioned above), p. 1 et seqq.
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'Treuer Wächter Israels!Dir sei Preis und Dank und Ehren;Laut betend lob' ich Dich,Dass es Erd' und Himmel hören' &c.46
Saupe, p. 11.
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Saupe, pp. 106-108.
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Herzgeliebte ElternEltern, die ich zärtlich ehre,Mein Herz ist heut' voll Dankbarkeit!Der treue Gott dies Jahr vermehreWas Sie erquickt zu jeder Zeit!Der Herr, die Quelle aller Freude,Verbleibe stets Ihr Trost und Theil;Sein Wort sei Ihres Herzens Weide,Und Jesus Ihr erwunschtes Heil.Ich dank' von alle Liebes-Proben,Von alle Sorgfalt und Geduld,Mein Herz soll alle Güte loben,Und trösten sich stets Ihrer Huld.Gehorsam, Fleiss und zarte LiebeVerspreche ich auf dieses Jahr.Der Herr schenk' mir nur gute Treibe,Und mache all' mein Wunschen wahr. Amen.Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller.Den 1 Januarii Anno 1769.
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Saupe, p. 18.
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Ibid. p. 109.
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Saupe, p. 25.
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Schwab, Schiller's Leben (Stuttgart, 1841), p. 68.
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See Appendix II. infrà.
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Schwab, Schiller's Leben.
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Saupe, p. 60.
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Saupe, p. 136 et seqq.
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Saupe, pp. 149-50.
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'O hätt ich doch im Thal Vergissmeinnicht gefundenUnd Rosen nebenbei! Dann hat' ich Dir gewundenIn Blüthenduft den Kranz zu diesem neuen Jahr,Der schöner noch als der am Hochzeittage war.Ich zürne, traun, dass itzt der kalte Nord regieret,Und jedes Blümchens Keim in kalter Erde frieret!Doch eines frieret nicht, es ist mein liebend Herz;Dein ist es, theilt mit Dir die Freuden und den Schmerz.'59
A once-celebrated Silesian of the 17th century, distinguished for his blusterous exaggerations, numb-footed caprioles, and tearing of a passion to rags;—now extinct.
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Beziehungen, p. 197, n.
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Here, from Schiller Senior himself (Autobiography, called "Curriculum Vitæ," in Beziehungen, pp. 15-18), is a List of his six Children;—the two that died so young we have marked in italics:
1. 'Elisabeth Christophine Friedericke, born 4 September 1757, at Marbach.
2. 'Johann Christoph Friedrich, born 10 November 1759, at Marbach.
3. 'Luise Dorothea Katharina, born 24 January 1766, at Lorch.
4. 'Maria Charlotte, born 20 November 1768, at Ludwigsburg: died 29 March 1774; age 5 gone.
5. 'Beata Friedericke, born 4 May 1773, at Ludwigsburg: died 22 December, same year.
6. 'Caroline Christiane, born 8 September 1777, at Solitüde;'—(this is she they call, in fond diminutive, Nane or Nanette.)
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Beziehungen, p. 217 n.
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Schwab, p. 173, citing Streicher's words.
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Schiller's Beziehungen (where many of Christophine's Letters, beautiful all of them, are given).
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Saupe, pp. 150-5.
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Schwab, p. 627, citing Voss, an eyewitness; and Caroline von Wolzogen herself.
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And yet Mr. Fox is reported to have said: There was one FREE Government on the Continent, and that one was—Würtemberg. They had a parliament and 'three estates' like the English.—So much for paper Constitutions!
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Jördens Lexicon: from which most part of the above details are taken.—There exists now a decidedly compact, intelligent and intelligible Life of Schubart, done, in three little volumes, by Strauss, some years ago. (Note of 1857.)
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It clearly appears I am wrong here; I have confounded the Freiherr Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg, Director of the Mannheim Theatre, with Archduke and Fürst Primas Karl Theodor Dalberg, his younger Brother,—a man justly eminent in the Politico-Ecclesiastical world of his time, and still more distinguished for his patronage of letters, and other benefactions to his country, than the Freiherr was. Neither is the play of Tell 'dedicated' to him, as stated in the text; there is merely a copy presented, with some verses by the Author inscribed in it; at which time Karl Theodor was in his sixtieth year. A man of conspicuous station, of wide activity, and high influence and esteem in Germany. He was the personal friend of Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Wieland; by Napoleon he was made Fürst Primas, Prince Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine, being already Archbishop, Elector of Mentz, &c. The good and brave deeds he did in his time appear to have been many, public and private. Pensions to deserving men of letters were among the number: Zacharias Werner, I remember, had a pension from him,—and still more to the purpose, Jean Paul. He died in 1817. There was a third Brother also memorable for his encouragement of Letters and Arts. "Ist kein Dalberg da, Is there no Dalberg here?" the Herald cries on a certain occasion. (See Conv. Lexicon, B. iii.)
To Sir Edward Bulwer, in his Sketch of the Life of Schiller (p. c.), I am indebted for very kindly pointing out this error; as well as for much other satisfaction derived from that work. (Note of 1845.)
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There have since been copious contributions: Correspondence with Goethe, Correspondence with Madam von Wolzogen, and perhaps others which I have not seen. (Note of 1845.)
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A curious physiologico-botanical theory by Goethe, which appears to be entirely unknown in this country; though several eminent continental botanists have noticed it with commendation. It is explained at considerable length in this same Morphologie.