August Wilhelm Schlegel

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1818- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 
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August Wilhelm (later: von) Schlegel (September 8, 1767 – May 12, 1845) was a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare made the English dramatist's works into German classics.[1]
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 23 (2007), S. 38-40 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118607960.html#ndbcontent
https://whowaswho-indology.info/2581/ ... He lived in the house of Fr. Schlegel and taught Sanskrit to a small circle including Schlegel, Hagemann, Volney and Fauriel. Langlès and Chézy were his friends, but did not attend his lectures (Chézy started Sanskrit alone in 1806), while A. W. von Schlegel never actually met him