Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Author
1772 – 1829
Who was Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel?
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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 the Jena romantics. He was a zealous promoter of the Romantic movement and inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Mickiewicz and Kazimierz Brodziński. Schlegel was a pioneer in Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, in what became known as Grimm's law, and morphological typology. As a young man he was an atheist, a radical, and an individualist. Ten years later, the same Schlegel converted to Catholicism. Around 1810 he was a diplomat and journalist in the service of Metternich, surrounded by monks and pious men of society.
Famous Quotes:
- Good drama must be drastic.
- An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
- Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.
- Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
- Virtue is reason which has become energy.
- Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
- It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.
- A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
- In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
- What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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- Born
- Mar 1, 1772
Hanover - Also known as
- Von Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich
- Friedrich Schlegel
- Friedrich von Schlegel
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Dorothea von Schlegel
(1804 - )
- Dorothea von Schlegel
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Göttingen
- Lived in
- Hanover
- Died
- Jan 12, 1829
Dresden
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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