Friedrich Schiller, Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre [The Criminal of Lost Honour]

Jeffrey L. High (California State University, Long Beach)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1786

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel
Novella

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During his work on

Don Carlos

(1787, q.v.) and the

Philosophische Briefe

(1786) in November 1785, Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller delivered the tale “Verbrecher aus Infamie. Eine wahre Geschichte” [“Criminal of Infamy. A True Story”], a psychological study on the development of a criminal, to his publisher Göschen in Leipzig, where it appeared anonymously in his journal

Thalia

in February 1786.

Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre. Eine wahre Geschichte

[

The Criminal of Lost Honour. A True Story

], as it has become better known since its republication in Schiller’s

Kleinere prosaische Schriften

[

Shorter Prosaic Writings

, 1792], was inspired by his professor Jakob Friedrich Abel, either at the Karlsschule or during Abel’s visit in Mannheim in November 1785. Abel’s father…

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Citation: High, Jeffrey L.. "Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 June 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16912, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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