“the Northwest of India must be considered the central point from which all of these nations had their origin”
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Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was a German literary critic, philosopher, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.
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culture · German poet, critic, philosopher, and Indologist (1772–1829) · philosopher · translator · writer · novelist · literary critic · university teacher · poet · editor · historian · literary theorist · also Friedrich Schlegel, Karl Friedrich von Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich von Schlegel, Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich
Born 10 March 1772 · Died 12 January 1829 · Q157271
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2008· 1 entry
“Everything, absolutely everything, comes from India.”
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1829· 7 entries
Died 1829-01-12.
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“India is not only at the origin of everything, she is superior in everything, intellectually, religiously or politically and even the Greek heritage seems pale in comparison.”
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“Der Historiker ist ein rückwärtsgekehrter Prophet.”
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“It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system, and to have none. So the spirit must indeed resolve to combine the two.”
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“It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. It will simply have to decide to combine the two.”
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“It is equally fatal for the spirit to have a system and to have none. One must thus decide to join the two.”
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“Man kann nur Philosoph werden, nicht es sein; so bald man es zu sein glaubt, hört man auf es zu werden.”
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1820· 1 entry
Started a conservative Catholic magazine, Concordia (1820–1823), but was criticized by Metternich and by his brother August Wilhelm, then professor of Indology in Bonn and busy publishing the Bhagavad Gita
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1819· 2 entries
The first theory linking the Indo-Iranian and German languages under the Aryan group
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And Clemens Brentano made a trip to Rome, in the company of Metternich and Gentz
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1814· 1 entry
Was knighted in the Supreme Order of Christ
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1809· 2 entries
Where he became a diplomat and journalist in service of Klemens von Metternich, the Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire
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Was appointed imperial court secretary at the military headquarters, editing the army newspaper and issuing fiery proclamations against Napoleon
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1808· 3 entries
And his wife joined the Catholic Church in the Cologne Cathedral
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Published Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India)
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Schlegel returned to Christianity as a married man with both him and his wife being baptized into the Catholic Church
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1806· 1 entry
And his wife went to visit Aubergenville, where his brother lived with Madame de Staël
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1801· 1 entry
And lectured as a Privatdozent on transcendental philosophy
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1772· 1 entry
Born 1772-03-10.
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