August Wilhelm von Schlegel
1767–1845
German literary historian, poet, translator, and philosopher. Translated many of Shakespeare’s plays in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Considered one of the founders of German romanticism.
Source
DBE.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
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