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unusual facts about Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


Friedrich Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829), known as Friedrich Schlegel, German philosopher, novelist, poet, critic, and scholar


Johanna Schopenhauer

For years to come literary celebrities – e.g. Goethe, Wieland, the Schlegel brothers August and Friedrich, and Tieck — twice a week gather in her house.

John Gibson Lockhart

A tour on the continent in 1817, when he visited Goethe at Weimar, was made possible by the publisher William Blackwood, who advanced money for a translation of Friedrich Schlegel's Lectures on the History of Literature, which was not published until 1838.

Lindenhof hill

Among the prominent historical visitors are Casanova, Goethe, Johannes von Müller, Herzog Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Schlegel, Johann Ludwig Uhland, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner und Brahms.

Stereotypes of South Asians

Friedrich Schlegel wrote in a letter to Tieck that India was the source of all languages, thoughts and poems, and that "everything" came from India.


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