Johann Kaspar Schiller (27 October 1723 – 7 September 1796) was an army officer and court gardener to the

Dukes of Württemberg Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ranked ...

. He and his wife Elisabetha Dorothea are also notable as the parents of the playwright

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 ...

Life

He was born in 1723 at

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to mayor Johannes Schiller (born 1682), whose ancestors were mainly vintners and craftsmen in Remstal, and his wife Eva Margarete Schatz (born 1690). He initially received private tuition in Latin until 1734. After four years' absence in 1738 he became an apprentice barber-surgeon in Denkendorf and

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. He died in

Solitude Palace Solitude Palace () is a Rococo ''schloss'' and hunting retreat commissioned by Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. It was designed by and Philippe de La Guêpière, and constructed from 1764 to 1769. It is located on an elongated ridge between ...

and was buried on 9 September 1896 in the Petruskirche in

Gerlingen Gerlingen ( Swabian: ''Gaerlenge'') is a town in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 9 km west of Stuttgart, and 15 km southwest of Ludwigsburg. Gerlingen is home to Bosch, a major engineering and ...

Works

* ''Betrachtungen über landwirthschaftliche Dinge in dem Herzogthum Würtemberg'' (= ''Oekonomische Beyträge zur Beförderung des bürgerlichen Wohlstandes.'' Bd. 1). Cotta, Stuttgart. ** 1: ''Vom Ackerbau.'' 1767. ** 2: ''Vom Weinbau.'' 1767. *** ''Vom Weinbau'' (= ''Weingeschichte.'' Bd. 1).Newly published with an afterword by Isolde Döbele-Carlesso. Carlesso, Brackenheim 2006, ISBN 3-939333-02-6 ** 3: ''Von der Viehezucht.'' 1767. ** 4: ''Von der Baumzucht.'' 1768. ** 5: ''Von ländlichen Gewerben.'' 1768. * ''Die Baumzucht im Großen aus Zwanzigjährigen Erfahrungen im Kleinen in Rücksicht auf ihre Behandlung, Kosten, Nutzen und Ertrag beurtheilt.'' Hofbuchhandlung, Neustrelitz 1795. ** Ulmer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-6514-7.

Bibliography

* Peter Lahnstein: ''Schillers Leben. Biographie.'' Neuausgabe. List, München 1990, ISBN 3-471-78050-5. * Friedrich Pfäfflin, Eva Dambacher: ''Schiller. Ständige Ausstellung des Schiller-Nationalmuseums und des deutschen Literaturarchivs Marbach am Neckar'' (= ''Marbacher Kataloge.'' , Bd. 32). 3., durchgesehene Auflage. Deutsche Schiller-Gesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 2001. * Constant Wurzbach von Tannenberg: ''Das Schiller-Buch. Festgabe zur ersten Säcular-Feier von Schiller’s Geburt 1859.'' Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1859 ().

External links

* *
''Bittenfeld und die Schiller''
on the private website for Bittenfeld *
Letters from Friedrich Schiller to his parents
in th
Friedrich Schiller archive
*
Biography (Gesellschaft für Geschichte des Weines)

References

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