A historian is a prophet in reverse.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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| Birth: | 10th March, 1772 |
| Death: | 12th January, 1829 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
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 Brodziński. Schlegel was a pioneer in Indo-European studies, comparative linguistics, in what became known as Grimm's law, and morphological typology.
