August Wilhelm von Schlegel was a German scholar, critic, Orientalist, Indologist, translator and poet. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics.
- Occupation
- linguist, translator, Sanskrit scholar, philosopher
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Hanover
- Born
- September 8, 1767, September 1767
- Died
- May 12, 1845
