Friedrich Schiller 17591805 absorbed the fertile ideas of the German Enlightenment observed firsthand fresh developments in German Romanticism and fostered one of Europes last great Classical movements. His insights into the human condition have endured and are as valuable now as they were when he first wrote. His characterisations of human nature remain compelling and his stylistic achievements in language continue to be admired and studied. His writing spanned many genres poetry prose drama history philosophy and includes a rich correspondence with Goethe. In this volume an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars examines the many sides that Schiller displays. The contributors illuminate key facets of his ideas by organising his writing around his various vocations his medical training work as a poet young dramatist and author of literary prose his tenure as a university professor and historian the mutually productive partnership with Goethe his philosophical writings and his final years as a mature playwright. His afterlife what Schiller has meant to Germans for two centuries is also considered.