SCHLEGEL, KAnt WILHELM FRIEDRICTI VON, distinguished both for his scholarship and intellectual ability, was a brother of the preceding, and was h. at Hanover, Mar. 10, 1772. He studied at Gottingen and Leipsic, and in 1797 published his first work, Griechen und Mow (The Greeks and Romans), which won praise from old Heyne. R was followed in the course of a year by his Geschichte der Poesie der Grimiest' und • "Omer (History of Greek and Roman Poetry), a sort of fragmentary continuatioa of the former. Both of these productions bore evidence of rich learning, inilepende•t thought, and a thorough appreciation of the principles and method of histor,e criti cism; but the chief vehicle at this time for the dissemination of his philosophical views of literature was the shaf-p-fanged periodical called the Athenantrn, edited by himself and his brother, August Wilhelm, Proceeding to Jena, lie started there as a priest docent, holding lectures on philosophy, which met with great applause, and still editing the Athenwont, to which he also began to contribute poems of is superior quality, and in the most diverse meters. In 1802 appeared his Alarkos, a tragedy, in which the antique classical and new-romantie elements are singularly blended. From Jena, lie soon went to Dresden, and thence to Paris, where he gave a few more of those philosophical pre-_ lections, in the manufacture of which both he and August Wilhelm were unhappily Much too expert ; edited the Europa, a monthly journal (2 vols. Frankf. 1803-5); and applied himself assiduously to the languages of southern Europe, and still more assid uously to Sanskrit, the fruits of which were seen in his treatise. Ueber die Sprorhe lend
Welshed tier ',Wier (11eidelb. 1808). Sec Pnthonoov. During his residence in Paris lie also published is Samna:nog Romantischer Diehlu wen des Nittelalters (Collection of Medhe val lbanantic Poems. 2 vole. Par. 1804). and the pions-ehivalric romance of Lobel. alai Adler (Berl. 11305). On his return to Germany he published a volume of dithyranibie and elegiac poems (Gedichre, Berl. 1809). At Cologne. he passed over to time Roman Catholic Church, a change to which his mcclireval studies powerfully contributed, and which, in its turn. no less powerfully effected his future literary career• In 1808 Schlegel went to Vienna, where, in 1811. appeared his Ueber die severe Gesehiehte (Lec tures on Modern llistory), and in 181:i his Gesehiehte der (Wen und neuen I:aerator (His tory of Ancient and Modern Literature). In 1822 a collected edition of his writings. in 12 vols. (Santuttliehe Werke), was published h• himself. Subsequently he delivered two series of lectures, one on the Philosophy of Life (Philosophic des Lebow, Vienna, 18138).
and another on the Philosophy of History (Philosophic der Geschiehte, Vienna, 1829), both of which are well known in England and other countries through the medium of lotions. Schlegel died Jan. 12, 1829. his MSS. were published by his friend Windisch mann (9 vols. Bonn, 1830-37).