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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel ( / ˈʃleɪɡəl / SHLAY-gəl, [7] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃleːɡl̩]; [7] [8] [9] 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism .
Mar 19, 2007 · Friedrich Schlegel. First published Mon Mar 19, 2007; substantive revision Fri Feb 12, 2021. Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) is of undisputed importance as a literary critic, but interest in his work among philosophers has until recently tended to be confined to a rather limited circle.
Apr 5, 2024 · Friedrich von Schlegel (born March 10, 1772, Hannover, Hanover—died Jan. 12, 1829, Dresden, Saxony) was a German writer and critic, originator of many of the philosophical ideas that inspired the early German Romantic movement. Open to every new idea, he reveals a rich store of projects and theories in his provocative Aperçus and Fragmente ...
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel ( / ˈʃleɪɡəl / SHLAY-gəl, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃleːɡl̩]; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.
- Intellectual Life. Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) was born in Hanover in 1772. His father, Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721–93), was a Protestant pastor and literary theorist, whose ideas are of some significance for his son's development (for example, he held the interestingly radical view that the number of literary genres that were possible was infinite).
- The Idea of Romanticism. Schlegel is probably best known for having developed a conception of a type of poetry which he contrasts with “classical” poetry as “romantic [romantisch],” and for having championed the latter.
- Hermeneutics. Another area in which Schlegel makes an important contribution is hermeneutics, or the theory of interpretation. This is not a subject with which he is commonly associated—as, say, Schleiermacher is—since he did not write systematically about it.
- Translation-Theory. Another area in which Schlegel makes a relatively neglected contribution is the theory of translation. The generation before Schlegel's in Germany had already contained great translators and translation-theorists: especially Herder (an important translator, especially in his Popular Songs [Volkslieder] [1774/8], and a seminal theorist of translation in his Fragments on Recent German Literature [1767–8]) and Voss (the great translator of Homer).
This view involves the assumption that Schlegel presented two distinct theories in the Athenaum —a theory of the novel in Fragment 116, and an entirely different theory of romantische Poesie elsewhere; but it is hardly plausible that Schlegel should have referred to the distinct objects of two distinct theories by the same name, i.e ...
Friedrich von Schlegel, a critic and philosopher, whose writings spearheaded early German Romanticism, started out as a devotee of Greek poetry. Born to an illustrious literary family in Hanover and classically trained, Schlegel was an unhappy and unfocused student of law at G ö ttingen and Leipzig from 1790 to 1793, all the while piling up ...
