Autograph envelope addressed in the hand of and bearing the wax seal of the influential German poet, critic and philosopher, a founding figure of early German Romanticism. Addressed to Nicolas Marie Alexandre Vattemare (1796–1864) in Cologne, also known under the stage name Monsieur Alexandre, French ventriloquist and philanthropist who created the first international system for the exchange of items among libraries and museums. In fine condition, notations in an unknown hand in French at the head and on verso, one dating the envelope to 1834. 5.5 x 4.5 inches; 14 x 11.5 cm. Rare.
August Wilhelm Schlegel was a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare made the English dramatist’s works into German classics. Schlegel was also the first professor in Sanskrit on the continent and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita. Schlegel’s translation of Shakespeare, begun in Jena, was ultimately completed, under the superintendence of Ludwig Tieck, by Tieck’s daughter Dorothea and Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin. This rendering is considered one of the best poetical translations in German, or indeed in any language.
Autograph envelope addressed in the hand of and bearing the wax seal of the influential German poet, critic and philosopher, a founding figure of early German Romanticism. Addressed to Nicolas Marie Alexandre Vattemare (1796–1864) in Cologne, also known under the stage name Monsieur Alexandre, French ventriloquist and philanthropist who created the first international system for the exchange of items among libraries and museums. In fine condition, notations in an unknown hand in French at the head and on verso, one dating the envelope to 1834. 5.5 x 4.5 inches; 14 x 11.5 cm. Rare.
August Wilhelm Schlegel was a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of German Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare made the English dramatist’s works into German classics. Schlegel was also the first professor in Sanskrit on the continent and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita. Schlegel’s translation of Shakespeare, begun in Jena, was ultimately completed, under the superintendence of Ludwig Tieck, by Tieck’s daughter Dorothea and Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin. This rendering is considered one of the best poetical translations in German, or indeed in any language.