The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending and Examination of His Works - Taschenbuch

Among the writers of the concluding part of the 1700s, there was none more deserving of our notice than Friedrich Schiller. Distinguished alike for the splendor of his intellectual faculties, on the elevation of his tastes and feelings, he has left behind him in his works a noble emblem of these great qualities; and the reputation which he thus enjoys, and has merited, excites our attention the more, on considering the circumstances under which it was acquired.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish-born English historian and essayist who was a leading figure in the Victorian era. Brought up as a strict Calvinist, he was educated at the village school, and Annan Academy and Edinburgh University, where he studied arts and mathematics. After graduating in 1813 he became a teacher at Kirkcaldy.

Carlyle moved to Edinburgh in 1818 where he was commissioned to write several articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia and for the Edinburgh Review. Carlyle also began translating German writers such as Goethe and Schiller and writing original work such as The Life of Schiller (1825).