The Augustenburger Briefen (''Augustenburg Letters'') are a
collection of letters
A letter collection or letter book consists of a publication, usually a book, containing a compilation of letters written by a real person. Unlike an epistolary novel, a letter collection belongs to non-fiction literature. As a publication, a lett ...
on
aesthetics written by
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...
in 1793 to
Friedrich Christian von Augustenburg. They represent an early draft of what would be published in 1795 as ''Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen'' ("Letters on the aesthetic education of man"), but were believed lost in a fire. They were only published, on the basis of surviving copies, in 1875.
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Works by Friedrich Schiller
Collections of letters