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45 of history's most influential philosophers. Thinkers whose ideas on existence, ethics, and society still shape human understanding.

Friedrich Schiller

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Friedrich Schiller

Germany

Friedrich Schiller's 1781 play Die Räuber The Robbers made him an overnight sensation and earned him honorary French citizenship. He collaborated with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on works like Xenien and helped found the Weimar Theater. Schiller was ennobled in 1802 and died of tuberculosis in 1805.

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