Johann Kaspar Schiller

Johann Kaspar Schiller as a lieutenant

Birthplace in Bittenfeld

Plaque at his birthplace

His grave in Gerlingen

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

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). At Johann Kaspar Schiller was several brothers and sisters, including Christine Schiller (1711–1757), who was married Friedrich Blumhard, Sibylla Schiller (born 1713), who was married Johann Friedrich Männer, Anna Magdalena Schiller (1716–1787), who was married Johann Georg Häberle, Johannes Schiller (1718–1777), Maria Susanna Schiller (1721–1792), Johann Jacob Schiller (1726–1799) and Eva Margaretha Schiller (1728–1810). 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.

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).
  • 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

• (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. ISSN 2363-5428, Bd. 32). 3., durchgesehene Auflage. Deutsche Schiller-Gesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 2001.
• (in German) Constant Wurzbach von Tannenberg: 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).

External links

• Literature by and about Johann Kaspar Schiller in the German National Library catalogue
• (in German) Bittenfeld und die Schiller on the private website for Bittenfeld
• (in German) Letters from Friedrich Schiller to his parents in the Friedrich Schiller archive
• (in German) Biography (Gesellschaft für Geschichte des Weines)