Johann Kaspar Schiller (27 October 1723 – 7 September 1796) was an army officer and court gardener to the Dukes of Württemberg. He and his wife Elisabetha Dorothea are also notable as the parents of the playwright Friedrich Schiller.

Life

He was born in 1723 at Bittenfeld to mayor Johannes Schiller (1682–1733), whose ancestors were mainly vintners and craftsmen in Remstal, and his wife Eva Margarete Schatz (1690–1778). He initially received private tuition in Latin until 1734. After four years' absence in 1738 he became an apprentice barber-surgeon in Denkendorf and Backnang.

He died in Solitude Palace and was buried on 9 September 1796 in the Petruskirche in Gerlingen.

Works

• Betrachtungen über landwirthschaftliche Dinge in dem Herzogthum Würtemberg (= Oekonomische Beyträge zur Beförderung des bürgerlichen Wohlstandes. Bd. 1). Cotta, Stuttgart.
  • 1: Vom Ackerbau. 1767.
  • 2: Vom Weinbau. 1767.
    • Vom Weinbau (= Weingeschichte. Bd. 1).^[1]
  • 3: Von der Viehezucht. 1767.
  • 4: Von der Baumzucht. 1768.
  • 5: Von ländlichen Gewerben. 1768.
• Die Baumzucht im Großen aus Zwanzigjährigen Erfahrungen im Kleinen in Rücksicht auf ihre Behandlung, Kosten, Nutzen und Ertrag beurtheilt. Hofbuchhandlung, Neustrelitz 1795.
  • Ulmer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-6514-7.