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Dorothea von Schlegel. Dorothea von Schlegel; portrait by Anton Graff (c.1790) Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel ( née Brendel Mendelssohn; 24 October 1764 – 3 August 1839) was a German novelist and translator.
Dorothea Friederike Schlegel, geboren als Brendel Mendelssohn (* 24. Oktober 1764 in Berlin; † 3. August 1839 in Frankfurt am Main), seit 1814 auch von Schlegel, war eine Literaturkritikerin und Schriftstellerin der Romantik, Lebensgefährtin und spätere Ehefrau von Friedrich Schlegel.
In Brief. Dorothea Mendelssohn Schlegel, the eldest daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, was an author and editor whose work received little recognition during her lifetime. While married to Simon Veit, she became active in Berlin’s dynamic salon subculture, and in 1794 she began calling herself Dorothea rather than her given name of Brendel.
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Nov 3, 2021 · Dorothea von Schlegel; portrait by Anton Graff (c.1790) Dorothea Veit-Schlegel (1764–1839), née Brendel Mendelssohn, was a translator, novelist, and early revivalist of medieval European literature. She was a core member of the Early German Romantic group, which also included her husband Friedrich Schlegel and his brother August, her sister ...
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May 6, 2024 · Dorothea Mendelssohn Veit Schlegel (1764–1839) was a novelist, essayist, translator, and literary critic whose life embodied the ideals and values of the early German Romantics, but with a twist. Born into the most illustrious Jewish family in Berlin, her...
In 1798, Dorothea, then mistress of one of the most popular of Berlin's 14 salons, met and quickly fell in love with Friedrich von Schlegel (1772–1829), a man almost a decade her junior who was rapidly emerging as one of the leading theorists of the revolutionary new Weltanschauung of Romanticism.
Dorothea von Schlegel was born in 1764 in Berlin. Oldest daughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, a leading figure in the German Enlightenment (Aufklärung). In 1783 she married the merchant and banker Simon Veit, brother of the physician David Veit.
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