Author · Germany
August Wilhelm Schlegel
Died in 1845
August Wilhelm Schlegel was born in 1767 in Hanover, the son of a Lutheran pastor. He studied theology and then philology at Göttingen, taught at Jena and in 1798 founded, with his brother Friedrich, the journal Athenaeum, the organ of early Romanticism. He put seventeen plays by Shakespeare into German verse. From 1804 he accompanied Madame de Staël as tutor to her children and adviser, until her death; he also served the Crown Prince of Sweden in 1813. A professor at Bonn from 1818, he printed there the first Sanskrit texts in Germany. He died in Bonn in 1845.
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- EssayA Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureVorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und LiteraturAugust Wilhelm Schlegel · 1809Literature