1. Friedrich Schlegel entered university to study law but instead focused on classical literature.
16 Facts About Friedrich Schlegel
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Friedrich Schlegel began a career as a writer and lecturer, and founded journals such as Athenaeum.
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In 1808, Friedrich Schlegel returned to Christianity as a married man with both him and his wife being baptized into the Catholic Church.
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Friedrich Schlegel moved to Austria in 1809, where he became a diplomat and journalist in service of Klemens von Metternich, the Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire.
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Friedrich Schlegel was a promoter of the Romantic movement and inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Mickiewicz and Kazimierz Brodzinski.
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The first to notice what became known as Grimm's law, Friedrich Schlegel was a pioneer in Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, and morphological typology, publishing in 1819 the first theory linking the Indo-Iranian and German languages under the Aryan group.
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Friedrich Schlegel published Die Griechen und Romer, which was followed by Geschichte der Poesie der Griechen und Romer.
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Friedrich Schlegel lectured on philosophy in private courses for Sulpiz Boisseree, and under the tutelage of Antoine-Leonard de Chezy and linguist Alexander Hamilton he continued to study Sanskrit and the Persian language.
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Friedrich Schlegel edited the journal Europa, where he published essays about Gothic architecture and the Old Masters.
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Friedrich Schlegel compared Sanskrit with Latin, Greek, Persian, and German, noting many similarities in vocabulary and grammar.
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Friedrich Schlegel went to Vienna and in 1809 was appointed imperial court secretary at the military headquarters, editing the army newspaper and issuing fiery proclamations against Napoleon.
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Friedrich Schlegel accompanied archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen to war and was stationed in Pest during the War of the Fifth Coalition.
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Friedrich Schlegel began the issue of his Samtliche Werke.
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Friedrich Schlegel delivered lectures, which were republished in his Philosophie des Lebens and in his Philosophie der Geschichte.
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Friedrich Schlegel died on 12 January 1829 at Dresden, while preparing a series of lectures.
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Friedrich Schlegel was the eldest daughter of Moses Mendelssohn which made the prodigious composers Felix and Fanny her niece and nephew.