The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file (PDF) is furnished free and without any charge of any kind.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (Marbach am Neckar, November 10, 1759 – May 9, 1805 in Weimar) was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist.

During the last several years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller struck a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with whom he greatly discussed issues concerning aesthetics, encouraging Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches; this thereby gave way to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Die Xenien (The Xenies), a collection of short but harshly satiric poems in which both Schiller and Goethe verbally attacked those persons they perceived to be enemies of their aesthetic agenda. (From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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Works of Friendrich Schiller:

Plays

• Die Räuber (The Robbers), 1781
• Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), 1784
• Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos), 1787
• Wallenstein, 1800
• Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans), 1801
• Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart), 1801
• Turandot, 1802
• Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), 1803
• Wilhelm Tell (William Tell), 1804
• Demetrius (unfinished at his death)

Histories

• Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der spanischen Regierung or The Revolt of the Netherlands
• Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Kriegs or A History of the Thirty Years' War
• Über Völkerwanderung, Kreuzzüge und Mittelalter or On the Barbarian Invasions, Crusaders and Middle Ages

Translations

• Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth
• Jean Racine, Phèdre

Prose

• Der Geisterseher or The Ghost-Seer (unfinished novel) (started in 1786 and published periodically. Published as book in 1789)
• Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen (On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a series of Letters), 1794

Poems

• An die Freude or Ode to Happiness (1785) became the basis for the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony
• The Artists
• The Hostage which Schubert set to music
• The Cranes of Ibykus
• Song of the Bell
• Columbus
• Hope
• Pegasus in Harness
• The Glove
• Nänie which Brahms set to music

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