Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel dies in…

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel dies in January 1829; the German poet, critic, and scholar's The Philosophy of History sees posthumous publication later in the year.

A permanent place in the history of German literature belongs to Schlegel and his brother August as the critical leaders of the Romantic school, which derives from them most of its governing ideas as to the characteristics of the middle ages, and as to the methods of literary expression.

Of the two brothers, Friedrich was unquestionably the more original genius.

He was the real founder of the Romantic school; to him more than to any other member of the school we owe the revolutionizing and germinating ideas that influenced so profoundly the development of German literature at the beginning of the nineteenth century.