Aus der neuesten Geschichte) is a prose work by Friedrich Schiller, published in his Kleinere prosaische Schriften.
A year later the woman dies; on her deathbed she explains that she loved the younger brother more.
Schiller's tale is based on the story of the brothers Ludwig (1740-1812) and Friedrich (1742-1781) von Wurmb.
In his introduction, Schiller indicates a wish that his text would leave his readers reminded of the works of Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison and Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded.
Bernhard Zeller notes in the afterword that Schiller has referenced a favourite motive of the time with his two brothers in love with the same girl: "the anecdotes are missing all dramatic effects; the poet limited himself to the simple report of the real facts, based on the moral effects and only interrupted by certain reflections.