Johann Kaspar Schiller

Johann Kaspar Schiller (27 October 1723 – 7 September 1796) was an army officer and court gardener to the Dukes of Württemberg. He and his wife Elisabetha Dorothea are also notable as the parents of the playwright Friedrich Schiller.

Life[edit]

He was born in 1723 at Bittenfeld to mayor Johannes Schiller (1682–1733), whose ancestors were mainly vintners and craftsmen in Remstal, and his wife Eva Margarete Schatz (1690–1778). He initially received private tuition in Latin until 1734. After four years' absence in 1738 he became an apprentice barber-surgeon in Denkendorf and Backnang.

He died in Solitude Palace and was buried on 9 September 1796 in the Petruskirche in Gerlingen.

Betrachtungen über landwirthschaftliche Dinge in dem Herzogthum Würtemberg

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Die Baumzucht im Großen aus Zwanzigjährigen Erfahrungen im Kleinen in Rücksicht auf ihre Behandlung, Kosten, Nutzen und Ertrag beurtheilt.

(in German) Peter Lahnstein: Schillers Leben. Biographie. Neuausgabe. List, München 1990, ISBN 3-471-78050-5.

(in German) Friedrich Pfäfflin, Eva Dambacher: Schiller. Ständige Ausstellung des Schiller-Nationalmuseums und des deutschen Literaturarchivs Marbach am Neckar (= Marbacher Kataloge. 2363-5428, Bd. 32). 3., durchgesehene Auflage. Deutsche Schiller-Gesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 2001.

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(in German) : Das Schiller-Buch. Festgabe zur ersten Säcular-Feier von Schiller’s Geburt 1859. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1859 (Johann Kaspar Schiller at Google Books).

Constant Wurzbach von Tannenberg

in the German National Library catalogue

Literature by and about Johann Kaspar Schiller

(in German) on the private website for Bittenfeld

Bittenfeld und die Schiller

(in German) in the Friedrich Schiller archive

Letters from Friedrich Schiller to his parents

(in German)