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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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Birth: | 10th March, 1772 |
Death: | 12th January, 1829 |
Nationality: | German |
Profession: | Poet |
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of the Jena romantics. He was a zealous promoter of the Romantic movement and inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Mickiewicz and Kazimierz BrodziĆski. Schlegel was a pioneer in Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, in what became known as Grimm's law, and morphological typology.
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