# August Wilhelm Schlegel

> He turned Shakespeare into a German institution. August Wilhelm Schlegel's translations didn't just cross a language barrier — they made the plays feel as though they'd been written in German all along, remaking the canon for an entire culture.

*German poet, translator, critic, and writer (1767–1845)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1767-09-08
- **Died:** 1845-05-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Hanover in September 1767, Schlegel came of age as German Romanticism was gathering force. Alongside his brother Friedrich, he became a central figure in the Jena circle, where criticism and poetry bled into each other. His Shakespeare translations, begun in the 1790s, did more than render the plays faithfully — they gave Germany a classical dramatist it could claim as its own. Later he moved eastward in focus: he became the first professor of Sanskrit on the Continent and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita, bridging Europe and India through philology. He died in May 1845, having spent a lifetime making foreign masterworks feel native.

## Fame
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## Platforms
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## Topics
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