. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. blished Egmont, a romantic drama, A love adventure withan uneducated d()mestic in his house, named Christiane Vulpius,resulted in his marryin
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. blished Egmont, a romantic drama, A love adventure withan uneducated d()mestic in his house, named Christiane Vulpius,resulted in his marrying her after the birth of their child. In 1792hi* accompanied the Prussian army and the duke of Brunswick intlieir campaign into France, and of this lit? wrote a narrative. Afterhif* return he was appointed minister of state. He also wrote severalscientific works. He made the acquaintance of the poet Schiller atJena, in 175)4, and they soon became fast friends, The first and^econd parts of Wilhelm Meister appeared respectively in 1795and 1818. In 1805 he first gave his masterpiece, Faust, to theworld, the second part appearing in 1831. In 1807 Alexander ofItus^ia confi-rrt-d on liiin tin- (trder of Si, Alexander Xew^^ki, and afterwards Napoleon bestowed upon him the grand cross of the legionof honor. Goethe died at Weimar in 1832. Besides the works abovementioned, he wrote several others which affected his previous famein a greater or less JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER. AN AUTHOR of many works with which the public are familiar,Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, was born at Marbach,Germany, in 1759. In his youth he studied medicine and becamea military surgeon. His drama of TheRobbers was published inhis twenty-second year, and so established his reputjition as a man ofgenius that he decided to devote himself to literary occupations. In1787 he removed to Weimar, acquired the friendship of the prominentGerman authors, Goethe, Wieland and Herder, and becam
Size: 1293px × 1933px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade18, booksubjectbiography, bookyear1887
