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SCHLEGEL, JOHANN ELIAS (1719-1749)

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SCHLEGEL, JOHANN See also:ELIAS (1719-1749) , See also:German critic and dramatic poet, was See also:born at See also:Meissen on the 28th of See also:January 1719. He was educated at Schulpforta and at the university of See also:Leipzig, where he studied See also:law. In 1743 he became private secretary to his relative, von Spener, the Saxon See also:ambassador at the Danish See also:court. Afterwards he was made See also:professor extra-See also:ordinary at the See also:academy of Seroe, where he died on the 13thof See also:August 1749. Schlegel was a contributor to the See also:Bremer Beitrdge and for some See also:time, while he was living in See also:Denmark, edited a weekly periodical, Der Fremde. With his dramas as well as with his See also:critical writings he did much to prepare the way for See also:Lessing, by whom his See also:genius was warmly appreciated. He wrote two lively and well-constructed comedies, Der See also:Triumph der guten Frauen and See also:Die stumme Schonheit, the former in See also:prose, the latter in alexandrines. See also:Hermann and Canut (in alexandrines) are generally considered his best tragedies. His See also:works were edited (in 5 vols., 1761-1770) by his See also:brother, J. H. Schlegel (1724-1780), who had a considerable reputation as a writer on Danish See also:history. Another brother, J.

Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793), an eminent preacher, and author of some volumes of See also:

verse, was the See also:father of August Wilhelm and See also:Friedrich von Schlegel. J. E. Schlegel's Asthetische and dramaturgische Schriften have been edited by J. von Antoniewicz (1887). and a selection of his plays by F. Muncker in Bremer Beitrdge, vol. ii. (Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. xliv., 1899). See, besides the See also:biography by his brother in the edition of his works, E. See also:Wolff, Johann Elias Schlegel (1889); and J. Rentsch, Johann Elias Schlegel ads Trauerspieldichter (1890).

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