Schlegel Karl

Schlegel, KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH, brother of the foregoing, was born in 1712. He assisted Schleiermacher to translate Plato, wrote The Greeks and the Romans, and startled society with a novel, Lucinde. In 1802 he went to Paris, and produced his treatise On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians, a work that marks an epoch. He died in 1829.