Friedrich von Schlegel,

a critic and philosopher,

whose writings spearheaded early German Romanticism,

poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist, and Indologist.

Typology

Schlegel eventually wrote the History of the Poetry of the Greeks and Romans

started out as a devotee of Greek poetry.

On Naive and Sentimental Poetry (1795–1796)

"Essay on the Concept of Republicanism" (1796)

he was 10 March 1772,he was a German

Friedrich Schlegel's wife, Dorothea von Schlegel

diplomat and journalist

Born into a fervently Protestant family

his father, Johann Adolf Schlegel,

he published On the Language and Wisdom of India

two sons, Johannes and Philipp Veit,

about religion and argued that a people originating from India were the founders of the first European civilizations.

he and his wife joined the Catholic Church in the Cologne Cathedral.

12 January 1829 (aged 56)
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony

Schlegel compared Sanskrit with Latin, Greek, Persian, and German, noting many similarities in vocabulary and grammar.

in service of Klemens von Metternich