August Wilhelm von Schlegel
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
August WilhelmSchlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator, critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the foremost leader of Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics. Schlegel was also the first professor in Sanskrit on the continent and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 September 1767
CountryGermany
August Wilhelm von Schlegel quotes about
speech literature immortality
Literature is the immortality of speech.