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Johann Elias Schlegel (
January 17,
1719 Meissen -
August 13,
1749), was a
German critic and dramatic
poet.
He was educated at
Schulpforta and at the
University of Leipzig, where he studied
law. In
1743 he became private secretary to his relative, von Spener, the
Saxon ambassador at the
Danish court. Afterwards he was made professor extraordinary at the academy of Sere, where he died on the 13th of August 1749.
Schlegel was a contributor to the
Bremer Beitrage 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 (in alexandrines) are generally considered his best tragedies.
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,
Johann Adolf Schlegel, an eminent preacher, and author of some volumes of verse, was the father of
August Wilhelm and
Friedrich von Schlegel.
JE Schiegel's
Alljetische und dramaturgische Schriften have been edited by J von Antoniewicz (1887), and a selection of his plays by F Muncker in
Bremer Beitrage, 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).
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