JOHANN See also:

• ELIAS, JOHN (1774-1841)

ELIAS See also:

• SCHLEGEL, AUGUST WILHELM VON (1767-1845)
• JOHANN ELIAS SCHLEGEL (1719-1749)
• SCHLEGEL, KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON (1772-1829)

SCHLEGEL (1719-1749)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German critic and dramatic poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MEISSEN

Meissen on the 28th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1719 . He was educated at Schulpforta and at the university of See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, where he studied See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law . In 1743 he became private secretary to his relative, von Spener, the Saxon See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador at the Danish See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court . Afterwards he was made See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor extra-See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary at the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy of Seroe, where he died on the 13thof See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1749 . See also:

• SCHLEGEL, AUGUST WILHELM VON (1767-1845)
• SCHLEGEL, JOHANN ELIAS (1719-1749)
• SCHLEGEL, KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON (1772-1829)

Schlegel was a contributor to the See also:

• BREMER, FREDRIKA (r8or–1865)

Bremer Beitrdge and for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, while he was living in See also:

• DENMARK
• DENMARK (Danmark)

Denmark, edited a weekly periodical, Der Fremde . With his dramas as well as with his See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical writings he did much to prepare the way for See also:

• LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (1729–1781)

Lessing, by whom his See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius was warmly appreciated . He wrote two lively and well-constructed comedies, Der See also:

• TRIUMPH (triumphus)

Triumph der guten Frauen and See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die stumme Schonheit, the former in See also:

• PROSE

prose, the latter in alexandrines . See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

Hermann and Canut (in alexandrines) are generally considered his best tragedies . His See also:

• WORKS

works were edited (in 5 vols., 1761-1770) by his See also:

• BROTHER

brother, J . H . Schlegel (1724-1780), who had a considerable reputation as a writer on Danish See also:

• HISTORY

history . Another brother, J .

Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793), an eminent preacher, and author of some volumes of See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, was the See also:

• FATHER

father of August Wilhelm and See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Friedrich von Schlegel . J . E . Schlegel's Asthetische and dramaturgische Schriften have been edited by J. von Antoniewicz (1887). and a selection of his plays by F . Muncker in Bremer Beitrdge, vol. ii . (Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. xliv., 1899) . See, besides the See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography by his brother in the edition of his works, E . See also:

• WOLFF (less correctly WOLF), CHRISTIAN (1679-1754)
• WOLFF, CASPAR FRIEDRICH (1733-1794)
• WOLFF, JOSEPH (1795–1862)

Wolff, Johann See also:

• ELIAS, JOHN (1774-1841)

Elias Schlegel (1889); and J . Rentsch, Johann Elias Schlegel ads Trauerspieldichter (1890) .