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 672 SCHILLER SCHLAGINTWEIT der Glocke, besides many other exquisite poems. In 1804 he completed Wilhelm Tell, the last and one of the noblest of his dramatic works. Shortly before his death he said: "Many things are now becoming intelligible and clear to me." The grand ideal pervading all his writings is that of the highest intellectual and moral cul- ture as a groundwork of liberty, and he ex- pressed his thoughts in prose and poetry with impassioned eloquence and at the same time with artistic grace and felicity. As a pictu- resque dramatist, whose ideality and genius soared highest in depicting the triumphs of virtue, liberty, and patriotism, and in creating lofty types of womanhood and manhood, he imparted to others his own enthusiasm, and impressed the heart of the people more pow- erfully than any other German poet. In per- son Schiller was tall and spare, his complex- ion was pale, his brow high and instinct with thought, his nose aquiline, his month of ex- quisite beauty; his hair inclined to auburn, and his eyes were blue and full of fire. Dan- necker'a bust in the Weimar library is the best likeness of him. In 1827 his remains were re- moved to the prince's vault in the new Weimar cemetery. The finest statues of him are by Thor- waldsen in Stuttgart (1839) and by Rietschel in the Schiller-Goethe monument at Weimar (1857). The celebration of his centennial in 1859 resulted in a number of monuments be- ing erected in his honor in Germany and else- where. Among the latest are those erected in 1871 in Berlin and in 1874 in Vienna; and one is to bo erected in 1876 at Marbach. In 1859 the Schiller funds for relieving indigent authors were merged with the central associa- tion in Dresden, which in 1872 had a surplus of about $300,000. The complete and partial editions of Schiller's works, which include translations and adaptations, short historical sketches, and various fragments, are exceed- ingly numerous. The first, incomplete, was published by his friend Korner (12 vols., 1812- published under the supervision of Godeke (1867-'7o), and Schiller's youngest daughter published in 1867 Schiller's Dramatische Ent- wiirfe. The most celebrated English versions of his poems are by Bulwer, and many of his other works have also been translated into English. Among American translators of his poems are C. T. Brooks, J. S. D wight, N. L. Frothingham, and W. H. Furness. The best English biographies of Schiller are Carlyle's (1825 ; German translation, with an introduc- tion by Goethe, 1830) and Bulwer's (1847). The principal German biographies are by Schiller's sister-in-law, Caroline von Wolzogen (2 vols., 1830; new eds., 1845 and 1851), Hoffmeister (5 vols., 1837-'42 ; new ed. enlarged by Viehoff, 1846-'53; completed, 3d ed., 3 vols., 1873), Schwab (1840; 4th ed., 1859), and Palleske (2 vols., 1858-'9; English translation by Lady Wallace, 1859; 5th German ed., 1872). See also Schiller's Jugendjahre, by Boas (2 vols., 1858); Goethe und Schiller, by Gddeke (1859); Schiller und seine Zeit, by Scherr (1859); Schiller's Kalender, 1795-1805, by his daughter Emilie von Gleichen-Russwurin (1865) ; his cor- respondence with Goethe (6 vols., 1828 ; new ed., 1856, and one including Duntzer's Schiller und Goethe, 1859; English translation by G. H. Calvert, Boston, 1845), with Wilhelm von Humboldt (1830), with Korner (4 vols., 1847; new ed., enlarged by GOdeke, 1874); Schiller's Briefe (3 vols., 1846; with historical com- ments, 1854-'7) ; his correspondence with his sister Christophine and her husband Reinwald, edited by Maltzahn (1874); and Schiller's Ver- hdltniss zu dem Publikum seiner Zeit, by Oskar Brosin (1875). Schiller's widow died in 1826. They had two sons and two daughters. The youngest of the latter, the baroness von Glei- chen-Russwurm, died in 1872. His only sur- viving male descendant (1875) is his grandson, Friedrich Ludwig Ernst von Schiller, an officer in the Austrian army. SCHILLING, Johannes, a German sculptor, born at Mittweida, Saxony, June 23, 1828. Ho studied in Dresden and Berlin, and spent sev- eral years in Rome. In 1868 he became pro- fessor at the royal academy of art in Dresden. His principal works are "Amor and Psyche," the Schiller monument in Vienna, and especial- ly his four groups representing the seasons, for which he received a first prize in 1861, and which were placed in 1872 on the Bruhl terrace in Dresden. In 1872 he also received the sec- ond prize of 1,000 thalers for his design for a projected national monument in the Nieder- wald. In 1874 he finished four life-size figures for the Schiller monument in Vienna. SCIILMLEL, Karl Friedricb, a German architect, born in Xen-Ruppin, Prussia, March 13, 1781, died in Berlin, Oct. 9, 1841. lie studied in Berlin, in Italy, and in France, became known in 1808-'14 as a painter of dioramas, and after- ward acquired celebrity as architect of some of the finest public works in Berlin, where he became professor in the academy of fine arts in 1820. He excelled also as a historical and decorative painter, and a special museum in Berlin bearing his name has been opened for his works. His Sammlung architektonischer Entwurfe (26 numbers, Berlin, 1820-'37) and Werke der hohern Baukunst (Potsdam, 1845- '6), have passed through many editions. See Aus Schinkels Nachlass, by Wolzogen (4 vols., Berlin, 1862-'4), and the biographies by Ku- gler and others. SCHLAGINTWEIT, Hermann, Adolf, and Robert, German travellers, the first born in Munich, May 13, 1826 ; the second born Jan. 9, 1829, killed in Kashgar, Aug. 26, 1857; the third born Oct. 27, 1833. While at the university Hermann and Adolf made explorations of the Alps, and published the results in their Unttr- suchungen uber die physikalische Geographic der Alpen (Leipsic, 1850). After spending some time in England and Scotland, they re- newed in 1851 their explorations of the Alps,
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