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August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 8 September 1767, September 1767
- Died
- 12 May 1845
- Place of birth
- Hanover
- Place of death
- Bonn
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Schlegel
- Father
- Johann Adolf Schlegel
- Spouse
- Caroline Schelling
- Movement
- Romanticism, German Romanticism, Jena Romanticism
- Occupation
- linguist, translator, Sanskrit scholar, philosopher, poet, literary critic, literary historian, romanist, playwright, university teacher, Indologist, writer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Hanover
- archives at
- Saxon State and University Library, Dresden, Freies Deutsches Hochstift, Library, University and State Library Bonn
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, The Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, New International Encyclopedia
- doctoral student
- Hermann Brockhaus, Christian Lassen, Johann Gildemeister
- educated at
- University of Göttingen
- employer
- University of Bonn, University of Jena
- end of work period
- 1845
- floruit
- 1900
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
- member of
- German Archaeological Institute, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, American Antiquarian Society, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Schlegel brothers
- name in native language
- August Wilhelm von Schlegel
- partner in business or sport
- Friedrich Schlegel
- place of burial
- Alter Friedhof Bonn
- significant person
- Helmina von Chézy
- start of work period
- 1801
- topic's main category
- Category:August Wilhelm Schlegel
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