German poet, critic and scholar, editor
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The critic who helped invent Romanticism, then turned his back on everything it stood for. Schlegel moved from atheism to Catholic conversion, from literary journals to serving Metternich's Austria — losing friends and family along the way.
Born into a Protestant household in 1772, Schlegel ditched law school for classical literature and spent his twenties as an atheist critic building the Romantic movement alongside his brother August Wilhelm. He founded journals like Athenaeum and shaped the era's literary consciousness, influencing Coleridge and later Polish Romantics. In 1808, married, he converted to Catholicism — a choice that severed ties with the circle that had defined him. A year later he moved to Austria and became a diplomat and journalist under Metternich, the Foreign Minister. He also pioneered Indo-European linguis…
Sourced, dated quotes from Friedrich Schlegel
In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants.
Poetry can be criticized only through poetry.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Honour is the mysticism of legality.
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