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August Wilhelm von Schlegel Biography
August Willhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845) German poet, Orientalist, student of Sanskrit and literary critic. His translations of Shakespeare into German appeared about 1797–1810.
Ludwig Bechstein, Dreihundert Bildnisse und Lebensabrisse berühmter deutscher Männer. (Leipzig: Georg Wigand's Verlag, 1890) 169.
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