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A German Indologist, poet, translator and critic, and a leading figure of Jena Romanticism. He translated Shakespeare, Dante, Calderón and the Bhagavad Gita, and influenced Goethe, Schelling and Novalis.
Sep 4, 2024 · A German scholar and critic, one of the founders of German Romanticism and a translator of Shakespeare. He also taught Oriental languages, wrote on literature and art, and traveled in Europe with Mme de Staël.
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Jan 14, 2010 · August W. Schlegel (Sept. 5, 1767, Hanover – May 12, 1845, Bonn) was a German essayist, critic, translator, philosopher, and poet.
This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise.
- Roger Paulin
- 2016
This book is the first full-scale biography of August Wilhelm Schlegel, a German Romantic poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar. It covers his life, works and influence from 1767 to 1845, and his involvement in the Athenaeum, the Shakespeare translation, the Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, and the Bonn professorship.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel 1767-1845. German translator, essayist, and poet. The following entry presents an overview of Schlegel's life and works. For additional information on his...
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May 18, 2018 · August Wilhelm von Schlegel, older brother of the now more famous Friedrich von Schlegel (1772–1829), was the most learned and wide-ranging literary critic and scholar of the Romantic period in Germany.
