Preface

Name: The History of the Thirty Years’ War - Preface
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; and in several instances these versions have been incorporated, after some revision or necessary correction, into the following collection; but on the other hand a large proportion of the contents have been specially translated for this edition, in which category are the historical works which occupy this volume and a portion of the next.

Schiller was not less efficiently qualified by nature for an historian than for a dramatist. He was formed to excel in all departments of literature, and the admirable lucidity of style and soundness and impartiality of judgment displayed in his historical writings will not easily by surpassed, and will always recommend them as popular expositions of the periods of which they treat.

Since the first publication of this edition many corrections and improvements have been made, with a view to rendering it as acceptable as possible to English readers.

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Chicago: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, "Preface," The History of the Thirty Years’ War, ed. Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron, 1783-1853 and trans. Ingram, J. H. (James Henry) in The History of the Thirty Years’ War (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1909), Original Sources, accessed April 11, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=93FG5KHRZPS5E2I.

MLA: von Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich. "Preface." The History of the Thirty Years’ War, edited by Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron, 1783-1853, and translated by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry), in The History of the Thirty Years’ War, Vol. 36, New York, Doubleday, Page, 1909, Original Sources. 11 Apr. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=93FG5KHRZPS5E2I.

Harvard: von Schiller, JC, 'Preface' in The History of the Thirty Years’ War, ed. and trans. . cited in 1909, The History of the Thirty Years’ War, Doubleday, Page, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 11 April 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=93FG5KHRZPS5E2I.