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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (/ ˈ ʃ l eɪ ɡ əl / SHLAY-gəl, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃleːɡl̩]; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist.
Mar 19, 2007 · Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) is of undisputed importance as a literary critic, but interest in his work among philosophers has until recently tended to be confined to a rather limited circle.
Friedrich von Schlegel (born March 10, 1772, Hannover, Hanover—died Jan. 12, 1829, Dresden, Saxony) was a German writer and critic, originator of many of the philosophical ideas that inspired the early German Romantic movement.
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- Intellectual Life. Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) was born in Hanover in 1772. His father, Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721–93), was a Protestant pastor and literary theorist, whose ideas are of some significance for his son's development (for example, he held the interestingly radical view that the number of literary genres that were possible was infinite).
- The Idea of Romanticism. Schlegel is probably best known for having developed a conception of a type of poetry which he contrasts with “classical” poetry as “romantic [romantisch],” and for having championed the latter.
- Hermeneutics. Another area in which Schlegel makes an important contribution is hermeneutics, or the theory of interpretation. This is not a subject with which he is commonly associated—as, say, Schleiermacher is—since he did not write systematically about it.
- Translation-Theory. Another area in which Schlegel makes a relatively neglected contribution is the theory of translation. The generation before Schlegel's in Germany had already contained great translators and translation-theorists: especially Herder (an important translator, especially in his Popular Songs [Volkslieder] [1774/8], and a seminal theorist of translation in his Fragments on Recent German Literature [1767–8]) and Voss (the great translator of Homer).
Discover the life and influential works of Friedrich Schlegel, a prominent German philosopher, critic, and poet who played a key role in shaping the Romantic movement. Explore his groundbreaking ideas on love, literature, and the subjective nature of truth, and learn how his intellectual legacy continues to inspire thinkers and writers today.
Friedrich von Schlegel, a critic and philosopher, whose writings spearheaded early German Romanticism, started out as a devotee of Greek poetry.
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Dec 5, 2013 · Summary. T his chapter looks at how Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) developed and applied his particular kind of orientalist thinking and writing within the German geographical, linguistic, and cultural context of the early nineteenth century.
