August Wilhelm Schlegel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAugust Wilhelm Schlegel
German poet, translator, critic, and writer
Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1767
Place of Birth: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Date of Death: 12-May-1845
Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, university teacher, romanist, literary critic, philosopher, literary historian, linguist, Sanskrit scholar, Indologist
Nationality: Germany
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About August Wilhelm Schlegel
- August Wilhelm (after 1812: von) Schlegel (; German: ['?le?gl?]; 8 September 1767 – 12 May 1845), usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator and critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the leading influence within Jena Romanticism.
- His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics.
- Schlegel was also the first professor of Sanskrit in Continental Europe and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
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