The German philologist, translator and critic, is considered the founder of Romance philology, and the ancient Indian in Germany. Of fantastic importance are his translations of dramas, such as that of William Shakespeare. Dignified Wilhelm von Schlegel contributed lectures on fine literature, the arts, and treatises on theoretical writings decisively to the apply of the early Romantic thought. He was assistant at Friedrich Schiller’s “Horen,” the Muses’ Almanac “and the” Jena Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. “With his brother Frederick, he shared the editorship of the magazine “Athenaeum”. Later he was editor of the “Indian Library”. Of literary works, he wrote sonnets, ballads and dramas …
Dignified Wilhelm von Schlegel was on 8 Born September 1767 in Hanover.
With school, Schlegel studied in Göttingen. He subsequently worked as a writer and critic. Works have been developed also for the magazine “The Hours,” which was published by Friedrich von Schiller. As of 1795, Schlegel, Novalis was one in a circle around to the early Romantics. Novalis, Schlegel was able to hold philosophies in an easily understandable form. In 1796 he married Caroline Böhmer. In 1803, the relationship was re-solved. Later she became the wife of the philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Schelling.
Of fantastic importance was his work as a literary theorist. An exception was five-act drama Schlegel’s “Ion” from 1802. Schlegel was the founder of the Romance languages. Schlegel analyzed 1802 first mentioned the term “world literature”. This term was first used in our present understanding in the studies “universal, everlasting poetry.” Together with his brother Friedrich von Schlegel, he went in the years 1798 to 1800 the journal “Athenaeum,” which was highly regarded in those years to the medium of German literature of his time.
Verner, he went the magazine “library – the ancient Indian philology.” Published in 1799, the brothers Schlegel, the art-theoretical conversation between Dignified Wilhelm von Schlegel and Caroline von Schlegel. 1804 Dignified Wilhelm Schlegel was secretary and traveling companion of Madame de Staël. At her country home Schlegel lived for 14 years. During this time he beglitt a professor of literature and art history at the Universities of Jena. Schlegel has taught history in view of the fact that 1818 of the German language and poetry at the University of Bonn.
In his lectures on “the gorgeous literature and art” of the classical and romantic poetry, Schlegel presciently opposed the aesthetics of the German and French classicism. Outside Germany, but, has philosophized on the theories of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt. Of greatest importance was Schlegel for his interpretation in another language translation of the works, like that of Shakespeare, Calderon and Cervantes. He contributed significantly to the understanding and dissemination of these works. Also had a large impart of his second wife Caroline.
William died on 12 Dignified by Schlegel May 1845 in Bonn.
