The Lebrecht who laid Schiller to rest
UncategorizedThe wonderful photographer Suzei Maeder found this in a Weimar cemetery.
As mayor of Weimar, our namesake collected the remains of the poet, who died of TB in 18o5 and brought them to a decent burial in March 1826.
Recent research suggests they many have been the wrong remains.
As far as I know, that recent examination of the skull and bones has established conclusively on the basis of DNA testing that they are indeed not Schiller’s remains.
I guess you could find many more of your namesakes – though without such a nice tombstone – in a big cemetery just outside of Weimar. I’m speaking of Buchenwald concentration camp.
This troll, whose email name is ‘Mauro Prado’, has sent previous anti-semitic posts. He is based in Nuremburg, Germany. If you know him, shun him.
BTW, Lebrecht here wasn’t the family name, it was his middle given name.