August Wilhelm Schlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German Indologist, poet, translator and critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics. Schlegel was also the professor of Sanskrit in Continental Europe and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
The Marktkirche at the beginning of the 19th century; oil painting after Domenico Quaglio, 1832
Schlegel c. 1800
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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 Jena Romanticism.
Friedrich Schlegel in 1801
Hanover's Market Church Oil painting after Domenico Quaglio (1832)
Dorothea von Schlegel (1790) by Anton Graff
The unfinished Cologne cathedral (1856) with medieval crane on the south tower