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  August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August Wilhelm von Schlegel (September 8, 1767 - May 12, 1845), German poet, translator and critic, was born at Hanover, where his father, Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793), was a Lutheran pastor.
Schlegel was made a professor of literature at the university of Bonn in 1818, and during the remainder of his life occupied himself chiefly with oriental studies, although he continued to lecture on art and literature, and in 1828 he issued two volumes of critical writings (Kritische Schriften).
Schlegel's Shakespeare translations have been often reprinted; the edition of 1871/1872 was revised with Schlegel's manuscripts by M Bernays.
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 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (March 10, 1772 - January 11, 1829), German poet, critic and scholar, was the younger brother of August Wilhelm von Schlegel.
A permanent place in the history of German literature belongs to Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm as the critical leaders of the Romantic school, which derived from them most of its governing ideas as to the characteristics of the middle ages, and as to the methods of literary expression.
Friedrich Schlegel's wife, Dorothea, was the author of an unfinished romance, Florentin (180,), a Sammlung romantischer Dichtungen des Mittelalters (2 vols., 1804), a version of Lother und Maller (1805), and a translation of Madame de Staël's Corinne (1807-1808)--all of which were issued under her husband's name.
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 AllRefer.com - August Wilhelm von Schlegel (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
August Wilhelm von Schlegel[ou´goost vil´helm fun shlA´gul] Pronunciation Key, 1767–1845, German scholar and poet.
He served as secretary to Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (later Charles XIV of Sweden) and became professor (1818–45) of art and literary history at Bonn.
Schlegel was one of the first critics to see the importance of social evolution in the history of art, and he was a champion of the Nibelungenlied.
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Schlegel, Friedrich von, (fre´drikh fn shla´gl) (KEY), 1772-1829, German philosopher, critic, and writer, most prominent of the founders of German romanticism.
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, (ou´goost vil´helm fn shla´gl) (KEY), 1767-1845, German scholar and poet.
There he was closely associated with August and Friedrich von Schlegel and J. Fichte, from whom he drew apart when he left Jena for a professorship...
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
With Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who viewed with interest and appreciation the poetical fashion of treating fact characteristic of the Naturphilosophie, he was on excellent terms, but on the other hand he was repelled by Friedrich Schiller's less expansive disposition, and failed altogether to understand the lofty ethical idealism that animated Schiller's work.
With August Wilhelm von Schlegel and his gifted wife, Karoline, herself the embodiment of the Romantic spirit, Schelling's relations were of the most intimate kind, and a marriage between Schelling and Karoline's young daughter, Auguste Böhmer, was vaguely contemplated by both.
Schlegel had removed to Berlin, and a divorce was arranged, apparently with his consent.
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 Schlegel, Friedrich von (1772-1829)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Youngest son in a family of seven children and the brother of August Wilhelm von Schlegel.
Schlegel lectured at the University of Jena (1800-1801) and then went to live with Dorothea (who had divorced her husband) in Paris (1802-1804).
The grave of Friedrich von Schlegel at the Alter Katholischer Friedhof in Dresden.
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 Schlegel, August Wilhelm von (1767-1845)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Schlegel was the son of a Lutheran pastor.
At the time there was a controversy between him and August von Kotzebue, who published the journal "Der Freimüthige", in which he attacked Goethe and the Schlegels.
The grave of August Wilhelm von Schlegel at the Alter Friedhof, Bonn.
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 AllRefer.com - Friedrich von Schlegel (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Friedrich von Schlegel[frE´drikh fun shlA´gul] Pronunciation Key, 1772–1829, German philosopher, critic, and writer, most prominent of the founders of German romanticism.
With his brother, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, he founded and edited the Athenaeum, the principal organ of the romantic school.
Schlegel, during his early period, held that comprehension of life depends on the richness and variety of experience.
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 August Wilhelm von Schlegel
As an original poet Schlegel is unimportant, but as a poetical translator he has rarely been excelled, and in criticism he put into practice the Romantic principle that a critic's first duty isn't to judge from the standpoint of superiority, but to understand and to characterize a work of art.
Schlegel's Shakespeare translations have been often reprinted; the edition of 1871/1872 was revised with Schlegel's manuscripts by M.
Schlegel's Berlin lectures of 1801/1804 were reprinted from manuscript notes by J. Minor (1884).
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 Vedanta Society of New York---Bhagavad-Gita Casts its Spell on the West: Part 3
This translation was to be an important resource for Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767--1835) and, later, George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770--1831), both of whom gave it their undivided attention.
The divine origin of man, as taught in Vedanta, is continually inculcated, to stimulate his efforts to return, to animate him in the struggle, and incite him to consider a reunion and reincorporating with Divinity as the one primary object of every action and reaction.
August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767--1845) hoped to inspire a new ethics and was the first to publish standard text editions with penetrating commentaries and translations in classical Latin of the
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 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
With August Wilhelm von Schlegel and his gifted wife Caroline, herself the embodiment of the Romantic spirit, Schelling's relations were of the most intimate kind, and a marriage between Schelling and Caroline's young daughter, Auguste Böhmer, was vaguely contemplated by both.
Auguste's death in 1800 (due partly to Schelling's rash confidence in his medical knowledge) drew Schelling and Caroline together, and Schlegel having removed to Berlin, a divorce was, apparently with his consent, arranged.
The enmity of his old foe, H. Paulus, sharpened by Schelling's apparent success, led to the surreptitious publication of a verbatim report of the lectures on the philosophy of revelation, and, as Schelling did not succeed in obtaining legal condemnation and suppression of this piracy, he in 1845 ceased the delivery of any public courses.
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 Chapter Two-- von Schlegel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Schlegel's aim too is to encourage general study of antiquity, not only of language; the section on language makes up only approximately a fourth of his book, which goes on to deal with other "media of satisfying our curiosity concerning.
Yet in it Schlegel also suggested a further means for distinguishing language interrelationships, one that was not taken over by Bopp, Grimm and their successors, and subsequently remained peripheral to the central course of nineteenth century linguistics: the use of typology.
His brother, August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845), who also concerned himself with the typological classification of language, came to concentrate on Indic studies, especially after he was appointed professor of literature at the University of Bonn in 1818.
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 MODERN PHILOSOPHY: Unclassified Philosophers - 2
Friedrich von Schlegel (picture) is one of the most characteristic representatives of German romanticism whose principal trait is the longing for a reality different from that which is determined by natural laws and historical circumstances.
Dissatisfied with the civilization of his own time, Schlegel at first exalted the French Revolution, then the Middle Ages, and finally, considering the Roman Catholic Church as the keeper of the medieval mind, he was converted to it, and became a champion of political and cultural reaction.
With his elder brother, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, he founded the journal Athenaum, in which he published his philosophical and literary aphorisms and his Dialogue on Poetry (1800), a critical work stressing the subjective aspects of literature and developing in full his romantic thought.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Schlegel, August Wilhelm von @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SCHLEGEL, AUGUST WILHELM VON [Schlegel, August Wilhelm von], 1767-1845, German scholar and poet.
With his brother, Friedrich von Schlegel, he founded the Athenaeum, which he edited (1798-1800).
He served as secretary to Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (later Charles XIV of Sweden) and became professor (1818-45) of art and literary history at Bonn.
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 August Wilhelm von Schlegel --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Schlegel was the son of a Protestant pastor and the nephew of the author Johann Elias Schlegel.
German author and critic (uncle of August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel), whose plays and criticism helped give the German theatre a much-needed new impetus.
The founder of experimental psychology was the German philosopher, physiologist, and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt.
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 August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar, poet, translator and critic, born on the 8th of September 1767 at Hanover, where his father, Johann Adolf Schlegel, was a Lutheran pastor.
At Jena Schlegel contributed to Friedrich von Schiller's periodicals the Horen and the Musenalmanach; and with his brother Friedrich he conducted the Athenaeum, the organ of the Romantic school, He also published a volume of poems, and carried on a rather bitter controversy with Kotzebue.
This was followed by Spanisches Theater (2 Vols., 1803-09), in which he presented admirable translations of five of Calderon's plays; and in another volume, Blumenstraüsse italienischer, spanischer und portuguesischer Poesie (1804), he gave translations of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian lyrics.
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 KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL - LoveToKnow Article on KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
German poet, critic and scholar, was the younger brother of August Wilhelm von Schlegel.
Friedrich Schlegels wife, Dorothea, was the author of an unfinished romance, Florentin (180,), a Sammiung romantischer Dichtungen des Mittelalters (2 vols., 1804), a version of Lother und Maller (1805), and a translation of Madame de Stals Corinne (1807-1808)all of which were issued under her husbands name.
On Dorothea Schlegel see J. Raich, Dorothea von Schiegel und deren Sohne (I88i); F. Diebel, Dorothea Schlegel als Schriftsteller im Zusammenhang mit der romantischen Schule (1905).
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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 books, find the lowest prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Indebtedness of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Indebtedness of Samuel Taylor Colleridge to August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
by Helmboltz A. Phelan, Anna Augusta von Helmholtz-Phelan
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 GM Hopkins and German Critical Reaction
A year ago, in his lecture on 'Hopkins's European Mentors', Michael E. Allsopp strongly argued that the English poet should be in various respects related to the context of 19th century European literature.
Clemen's essays was printed side by side with the Princeton historian Erich von Kahler's translations of four sonnets; Kahler, too, points at Hopkins's modernity, mentioning the poet's influence on English and Amerian poets of the twentieth century and quoting Robert Lowell's dictum "his daring is sober, his obedience is alive".
Whereas the first three poets, in Horst's view, have perfectly mastered the given traditional literary forms, the latter are called mannerists because they were using oblique ciphers and symbols rather than relying on their immediate personal experiences.
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 August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 1767–1845, German scholar and poet.
Schlegel was one of the first critics to see the importance of social evolution in the history of art, and he was a champion of the
August Adolf Ludwig Follen (1794-1855): political radicalism and literary romanticism in Germany and Switzerland.
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 Hegel's Critique of Subjective Irony
This criticism of Schlegel's radically formal subjectivity, while it might seem excessive today--especially since Schlegel is ascendant today in the American academy--was no doubt occasioned at least in part by the Jena romantics' almost-Californian style of life, especially of gender relationships.
As we have seen earlier, Friedrich Schlegel is indeed a writer of the highest literary quality, one who works in a fine and subtle way with language as well as with thought, and it could well be the case that Hegel feels called upon to criticize a stylist with style as well.
implying that Schlegel's point of view is doctrinaire, elitist (note the not so subtle use of ``von''), and that Schlegel's irony is merely an alleged irony, casting doubt on the legitimation of Schlegel's use of the term.
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 H-Net Review: Katherine Arens on German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism
He says "she launches the idea that Germany was a land of poets and philosophers, not doers, and that this was because there was not political life available to Germans, which required those who would otherwise be its movers and doers to retreat from the political world into an ethereal world of thought" (p.
Schlegel, however, was a major aesthetician in his own right, who has been acknowledged as her conduit into German thought.
And de Stael's work was framed to be an attack on the French, who persisted in considering their culture the navel of the universe (and Germany the home of peasants), even after twenty years of cultural disruption.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Schlegel August Wilhelm von   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hofmann, August Wilhelm von (1818-1892), German chemist, born in Giessen, and educated at the University of Giessen.
Schlegel, August von: place in German cultural history
One of the first writers to stand out beyond Germany was 18th-century dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, whose play Nathan the Wise (1779;...
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 Friedrich von Schlegel
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 1772–1829, German philosopher, critic, and writer, most prominent of the founders of German
With his brother, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, he founded and edited the
August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 1767–1845, German scholar and poet.
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