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Topic: Brazilian Declaration of Independence
Location: Chartres Centre France

August Wilhelm Schlegel

German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism
Years: 1767 - 1845

August Wilhelm (later: von) Schlegel (September 8, 1767 – May 12, 1845) is a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism.

His translations of Shakespeare make the English dramatist's works into German classics.