<P> `` Ode to Joy '' ( German : `` An die Freude '' ( an diː ˈfʁɔʏdə ) , first line : `` Freude , schöner Götterfunken '' ) is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet , playwright , and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia . A slightly revised version appeared in 1808 , changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza . </P>
<P> `` Ode to Joy '' ( German : `` An die Freude '' ( an diː ˈfʁɔʏdə ) , first line : `` Freude , schöner Götterfunken '' ) is an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German poet , playwright , and historian Friedrich Schiller and published the following year in Thalia . A slightly revised version appeared in 1808 , changing two lines of the first and omitting the last stanza . </P>
who wrote the poem that the words come from ode to joy
who wrote the poem that the words come from ode to joy
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller