Friedrich Schiller & Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Did Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe live at the same time?

Yes. Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived at the same time for 46 years, from 1759 to 1805.^[1][2][3][4]

Friedrich Schiller · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Born in 1759 · Born in 1749

Friedrich Schiller

1759–1805

Literature

German poet of the Ode to Joy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749–1832

Literature

German poet and author of Faust

How Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Are Connected

• Beethoven set Schiller's Ode to Joy in his Ninth Symphony, yet he wrote that Schiller was hard to set to music: "In this respect Goethe is much easier".^[1]

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