Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (later: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet, critic and scholar. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was a critical leader of German Romanticism.
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