“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?”

German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian

Friedrich Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher, and historian. He is one of the major figures of German classicism and a leading voice in the Sturm und Drang movement. He wrote across drama, poetry, philosophy, and history, and his work helped shape German literature in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is remembered for his broad human concerns and for writing with moral seriousness, dramatic energy, and a strong sense of idealism.