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August Wilhelm Schlegel
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel (Schlegel until 1812; SHLAY-gəl; German: [aʊˈɡʊst ˈʃleːɡl̩]; 8 September 1767 – 12 May 1845) was a German scholar, critic, Orientalist, Indologist, translator and poet. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics.
Schlegel was also the professor of Sanskrit in Continental Europe and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
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For the reason, however, that their criticism was not accompanied with a knowledge of the nature of such a standard based on philosophical principles, a lack of definition and continuity was inseparable from this standard; and they at one time attempted too much and again at another too little. Despite, therefore, of the fact that it may be reckoned to their credit that they have once more drawn attention to and…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
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It seems as if we might assume that the poet's last months or years were soothed by the society of his daughter--the child whom he had named after the object of his first and most enduring love.[125] Whether or not he was acting as Ambassador for Guido to Venice when he caught his last illness, it appears to be pretty well established that he was held in honour by his patron and all around him.[126] For his hours of…
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
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The subject-matter which in this manner more or less determined the form was sought by the Germans in the most varied quarters. They had handled few national subjects, or none at all. Schlegel’s _Hermann_ only pointed the way. The idyllic tendency had immense vogue.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's literary essays
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- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Indology
- Western philosophy
- Historicism
- Italy
- India
- Immanuel Kant
- Iran
- Ludwig Tieck
- Latin
- Philosophy of history
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- University of Göttingen
- Jena
- Moscow
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 19th-century philosophy
- Germaine de Staël
- Novalis
- Linguistics
- Philology
- Bhagavad Gita
Place in the tradition
Part of German philosophy.