Johann Elias Schlegel
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Johann Elias Schlegel (January 17, 1719 – August 13, 1749) was a German critic and dramatic poet.
Life
Schlegel was born in
Works
Schlegel was a contributor to the Bremer Beiträge and for some time, while he was living in Denmark, edited a weekly periodical, Der Fremde. With his dramas as well as with his critical writings he did much to prepare the way for Lessing, by whom his genius was warmly appreciated. He wrote two lively and well-constructed comedies, Der Triumph der guten Frauen and Die stumme Schönheit, the former in prose, the latter in alexandrines. Hermann and Canut (both in alexandrines) are generally considered his best tragedies.[1]
His works were edited (in 5 vols., 1761–1770) by his brother, J. H. Schlegel (1724–1780), who had a considerable reputation as a writer on Danish history. Another brother,
Bibliography
J. E. Schlegel's Asthetische und dramaturgische Schriften have been edited by J. von Antoniewicz (1887), and a selection of his plays by F. Muncker in Bremer Beiträge, vol. ii. (Kürschner's Deutsche Nalionalliteratur, vol. xliv., 1899). See, besides the biography by his brother in the edition of his works, E. Wolff, Johann Elias Schlegel (1889); and J. Rentsch, Johann Elias Schlegel als Trauerspieldichter (1890).
- Elizabeth Mary Wilkinson, Johann Elias Schlegel: A German Pioneer in Aesthetics (Oxford, 1945)
- Country Pastors by J.C. Kruger and Good Women Triumphant by J.E. Schlegel: Two Comedies of the Early Enlightenment. Translated by John W. Van Cleve. Mellen: 2019
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schlegel, Johann Elias". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
- Literature by and about Johann Elias Schlegel in the German National Library catalogue
- "Works by Johann Elias Schlegel". Zeno.org (in German).
- Johann von Antoniewicz (1890), "Schlegel, Elias", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 31, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 378–384
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