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SCHLEGEL, KARL WILHELM See also:FRIEDRICH VON (1772-1829) , See also:German poet, critic and See also:scholar, was the younger See also:brother of See also:August Wilhelm von Schlegel. He was See also:born at See also:Hanover on the loth of See also:March 1772. He studied See also:law at See also:Gottingen and See also:Leipzig, but ultimately devoted himself entirely to See also:literary studies. He published in 1797 the important See also:book See also:Die Griechen and Romer, which was followed by the suggestive Geschichte der Poesie der Griechen and Romer (1798). At See also:Jena, where he lectured as a Privatdozent at the university, he contributed to the See also:Athenaeum the aphorisms and essays in which the principles of the Romantic school are most definitely stated. Here also he wrote Lucinde (1799), an unfinished See also:romance, which is interesting as an See also:attempt to See also:transfer to See also:practical See also:ethics the Romantic demand for See also:complete individual freedom, and Alarcos, a tragedy (1802) in which, without much success, he combined romantic and classical elements. In 1802 he went to See also:Paris, where he edited the See also:review See also:Europa (1803), lectured on See also:philosophy and carried on See also:Oriental studies, some results of which he embodied in an See also:epoch-making book, Uber die Sprache and Weisheit der Indier (18o8). In the same See also:year in which this See also:work appeared, he and his wife Dorothea (1763-1839), a daughter of See also:Moses Mendelssohn, joined the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church, and from this See also:time he became more and more opposed to the principles of See also:political and religious freedom. He went to See also:Vienna and in 1809 was appointed imperial See also:court secretary at the headquarters of the See also:archduke See also:Charles. At a later See also:period he was councillor of See also:legation in the See also:Austrian See also:embassy at the See also:Frankfort See also:diet, but in 1818 he returned to Vienna. Meanwhile he had published his collected Gedichte (1809) and two See also:series of lectures, Uber die neuere Geschichte (1811) and Geschichte der See also:alten and neuen Literatur (1815). After his return to Vienna from Frankfort he edited See also:Concordia (1820-1823), and began the issue of his Samtliche Werke.

He also delivered lectures, which were re-published in his Philosophic See also:

des Lebens (1828) and in his Philosophic der Geschichte (1829). He died on the Ifth of See also:January 1829 at See also:Dresden. A permanent See also:place in the See also:history of German literature belongs to Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August Wilhelm as the See also:critical leaders of the Romantic school, which derived from them most of its governing ideas as to the characteristics of the See also:middle ages, and as to the methods of literary expression. Of the two See also:brothers, Friedrich was unquestionably the more See also:original See also:genius. He was the real founder of the Romantic school; to him more than to any other member of the school we owe the revolutionizing and germinating ideas which influenced so profoundly the development of German literature at the beginning of the 19th See also:century. Friedrich Schlegel's wife, Dorothea, was the author of an unfinished romance, Florentin (18o,), a Sammlung romantischer Dichtungen des Mittelalters (2 vols., 1804), a version of Lolher and Mailer (1805), and a See also:translation of Madame de See also:Stael's Corinne (18o7-,8o8)-all of which were issued under her See also:husband's name. By her first See also:marriage she had a son, Philipp See also:Veit, who became an eminent painter. Friedrich Schlegel's Sdmtliche Werke appeared in io vols. (1822— botanists of his time as to have earned from Anton de Bary the See also:title of reformer of scientific See also:botany. His botanical labours practically ceased after 185o, when he entered on various philosophical and See also:historical studies.

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