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August Wilhelm Schlegel, De geographia Homerica (Hanover, 1788). Title page. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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Portrait drawing of August Wilhelm Schlegel as a young man, by unknown artist, undated [early 1790s]. © and by kind permission of Hans-Joachim Dopfer, all rights reserved. |
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Portrait in oils of August Wilhelm Schlegel, by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein [1793]. http://www.zeno.org/nid/20004239346. Image in the public domain. (Attribution challenged by the present owners, Freies Deutsches Hochstift—Frankfurter Goethe-Museum, Frankfurt am Main). |
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Die Horen eine Monatsschrift herausgegeben von Schiller (Tübingen, 1795-98). Title page of vol. 1. Image in the public domain. |
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Manuscript page of Schlegel’s and Caroline’s translation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1797), in Caroline’s hand, open at Act 2, Scene 1 (‘O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?’). SLUB Dresden. Mscr. Dresd. e. 90. XXII. 10. Bl. 24. © SLUB Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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Manuscript page of Schlegel’s translation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1798), open at Act 1, Scene 2 (‘Full fathom five’). SLUB Dresden. Mscr. Dresd. e. 90. XXII. 13. Bl. 49. © SLUB Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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Athenaeum. Eine Zeitschrift von August Wilhelm und Friedrich Schlegel (Berlin, 1798-1800). Title page of vol. 2. Image in the public domain. |
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John Flaxman: illustration of Dante, Inferno, Canto 33 (Rome[?], 1802), showing Ugolino and his sons. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel, Charakteristiken und Kritiken (Königsberg, 1801), Title page of vol. 1. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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A. W. Schlegel and L. Tieck, Musenalmanach auf das Jahr 1802 (Tübingen, 1802). Title page. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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‘Schlegel and Tieck Crowning Each Other With Laurels’. Extract from the caricature ‘Die neuere Ästhetik’ (1803). Image taken from Die ästhetische Prügeley, ed. Rainer Schmitz (Göttingen: Wallstein, 1992), [unpag.]. Courtesy of Wallstein Verlag, image in the public domain. |
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Europa. Eine Zeitschrift. Herausgegeben von Friedrich Schlegel (Frankfurt am Main, 1803, 1805). Frontispiece and title page. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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‘Artem penetrat’. Caricature drawing, undated [1805?], reproduced by J. G. van Gelder, ‘Artem Penetrat’, in: Dancwerc. Opstellen aangeboden aan Prof. Dr. D. Th. Enklaar ter gelegenheid van zijn vijfenzestige verjaardag (Groningen: Wolters, 1959), 308-317, ill. facing 312. Orphan work. |
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August Wilhelm Schlegel, Comparaison entre la Phèdre de Racine et celle d’Euripide (Paris, 1807). Title page. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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August Wilhelm Schlegel, Über dramatische Kunst und Litteratur (Heidelberg, 1809, 1811). Title page of vol. 1. Image in the public domain. |
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‘Eintritts-Billett’. Admission ticket for Schlegel’s lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, Vienna 1808. SLUB Dresden. Mscr. Dresd. App. 2712. A8. 5. © SLUB Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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August Wilhelm Schlegel, marble bust by Friedrich Tieck 1816-30. Image taken from the frontispiece of Briefe von und an August Wilhelm Schlegel, ed. Josef Körner (Zurich, Leipzig, Vienna: Amalthea, 1930), vol. 1. Image in the public domain. |
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August Wilhelm Schlegel, Poetische Werke (Vienna, 1815). Frontispiece and title page. Image in the public domain. |
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August Wilhelm Schlegel, Betrachtungen über die Politik der dänischen Regierung ([Stockholm], 1813). Title page. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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Proclamations de S. A. R. le Prince-Royal de Suède (Stockholm, 1815). Title page. Image in the public domain. |
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Portrait engraving of August Wilhelm Schlegel by Gustav Adolph Zumpe (c. 1817). Image in the public domain. |
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Friedrich Schlegel, Deutsches Museum (Vienna, 1812). Title page. Image in the public domain. |
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August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cours de littérature dramatique. Traduit de l’allemand (Paris, Geneva, 1814). Title page of vol. 1. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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Jahrbuch der Preußischen Rhein-Universität (Bonn, 1819). Frontispiece issued 1821. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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‘Aula’. Illustration from Die rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn (Bonn, 1839). Image in the public domain. |
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‘Inskriptions-Liste’. Attendance list for August Wilhelm Schlegel’s lecture ‘Deutsche Verskunst’, summer semester 1820, showing Heinrich Heine’s name at the bottom. SLUB Dresden. Mscr. Dresd. e. 90. V. 7. © SLUB Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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’Inskriptions-Liste’. Attendance list for August Wilhelm Schlegel’s lecture ‘Einige homerische Fragen’, winter semester 1835-36. Karl Marx’s name is marked ‘+6’. SLUB Dresden. Mscr. Dresd. e. 90. V. 4. © SLUB Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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Indische Bibliothek. Eine Zeitschrift von August Wilhelm von Schlegel (Bonn, 1820-1830). Title page issued in 1823. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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Schlegel’s Certificate of Departure from the Port of Dover, 19 November 1823, with description of his appearance. SLUB Dresden. Mscr. Dresd. e. 90. XI. 1. 4. © SLUB Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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Auguste von Buttlar, pencil drawing after the engraving by Jean Bein based on the painting by François Gérard, ‘Corinne au cap Misène’ (1819), 1824. Kupferstich-Kabinett, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Inv. Nr. Ca 45/S.01 © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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Schlegel’s invitation to the palace of the Tuileries, dated 8 October, 1831. SLUB Dresden. Mscr. Dresd. e. 90. XI. V. b. © SLUB Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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Schlegel’s receipt for the ‘Silver Dress Star of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order’, 20 March, 1832. SLUB Dresden. Mscr. Dresd. e. 90. II. 51. © SLUB Dresden, all rights reserved. |
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Râmâyana. Schlegel’s edition, part 1 of vol. 1 (Bonn, 1829). Title page. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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Lithograph by Henry & Cohen in Bonn, after the portrait engraving of August Wilhelm Schlegel by Adolf August Hohneck (c. 1830). Image from Oeuvres de M. Auguste-Guillaume de Schlegel écrites en français, ed. Éduouard Böcking, vol. 1 (Leipzig: Weidmann, 1846), frontispiece. © and by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, CC BY-NC 4.0. |
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Portrait engraving of August Wilhelm Schlegel by Christian Hoffmeister (1841). Image taken from Briefe von und an August Wilhelm Schlegel, ed. Josef Körner (Zurich, Leipzig, Vienna, 1930), vol. 1, facing p. 521. Image in the public domain. |
Short Biographies
Ernst Moritz Arndt. Engraving by unknown artist (c. 1820). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Moritz_Arndt.gif |
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Bettina von Arnim. Drawing by Ludwig Emil Grimm (c. 1810). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bettina-von-arnim-grimm.jpg |
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Ludwig Achim von Arnim. Painting by Peter Eduard Ströhling (1805). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_Achim_von_Arnim.jpg |
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Wolf von Baudissin. Photograph from unknown source. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wolf_Heinrich_Graf_von_Baudissin.jpg |
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Jean Baptiste Bernadotte. Painting by François Gérard. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_XIV_John_as_Crown_Prince_of_Sweden_-_François_Gérard.jpg |
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Auguste Böhmer. Engraving based on a painting by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1798). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Böhmer_Auguste.jpg |
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Sulpiz Boisserée. Drawing by Johann Joseph Schmeller (1827). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sulpiz_Boisserée.jpg |
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Albert de Broglie. Photograph by Bascard fils (late nineteenth century). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broglie_Albert.JPG |
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Victor de Broglie. Engraving by Lacoste (1843). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_Broglie_1843.jpg |
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Gottfried August Bürger. Engraving by unknown artist. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gottfried_august_buerger.jpg |
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Henry Thomas Colebrooke. Bust by Sir Francis Chantrey (1837). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HTColebrooke.jpg |
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Benjamin Constant. Lithograph by Langlumé (undated). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BenjaminConstant.jpg |
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Johann Friedrich von Cotta. Lithograph by unknown artist (c. 1830). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Friedrich_Freiherr_von_Cotta.png |
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Johann Joachim Eschenburg. Painting by Johann Friedrich Weitsch (before 1803). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Joachim_Eschenburg.jpg |
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Engraving after the drawing by Friedrich Bury (1801). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_gottlieb_fichte.jpg |
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John Flaxman. Self-portrait at the age of 24. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Selfportraitflaxman.jpg |
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Georg Forster. Portrait painting by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1785). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Forster-larger.jpg |
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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Engraving by L. Staub (undated, after 1815). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staub_-_Friedrich_de_la_Motte_Fouqué.jpg |
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Friedrich Gentz. Lithograph by Friedrich Lieder (1825). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Gentz.jpg |
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Joseph Görres. Portrait painting by Joseph Anton Nikolaus Settegast (1838). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_von_Görres.jpg |
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Drawing by Friedrich Bury (1800). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JohannWolfgangVonGoethe_FriedrichBury.jpg |
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Double portrait by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1855). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grimm.jpg |
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Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis). Engraving by Eduard Eichens (1845) after a portrait by an unknown artist. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Novalis.jpg |
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Karl August von Hardenberg. Portrait painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (c. 1822). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fürst_Hardenberg.jpg |
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Heinrich Heine. Etching by Eduard Mandel (1854) after a portrait drawing by Franz Kugler (1829). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heinrich_Heine.jpg |
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Frans Hemsterhuis. Unidentified engraving. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Romein_erfl_Hemsterhuis.gif |
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Johann Gottfried Herder. Portrait painting by Anton Graff (1786). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Gottfried_Herder_2.jpg |
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Christian Gottlob Heyne. Engraving based on a portrait painting by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1789). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christian_Gottlob_Heyne.jpg |
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Alexander von Humboldt. Portrait painting by Friedrich Georg Weitsch (1806). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt#/media/File:Alexandre_humboldt.jpg |
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Wilhelm von Humboldt. Engraving by an unknown artist (undated). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W.v.Humboldt.jpg |
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August Wilhelm Iffland. Copy of a pastel portrait by Johann Heinrich Schröder (undated). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iffland_after_Johann_Heinrich_Schröder.jpg |
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Sir William Jones. Engraving by William Evans (1804). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_William_Jones_by_William_Evans_1804.jpg |
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Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. Portrait painting by Jens Juel (c. 1779). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Gottlieb_Klopstock_1.jpg |
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David Ferdinand Koreff. Portrait drawing by Wilhelm Hensel (undated). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilhelm_Hensel_-_David_Ferdinand_Koreff.jpg |
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August von Kotzebue. Engraving by an unknown artist (1859). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:August_von_Kotzebue.jpg |
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Christian Lassen. Drawing by Adolf Hohneck (1859). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lassen2.jpg |
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Portrait painting by Anton Graff (1771). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing_Kunstsammlung_Uni_Leipzig.jpg |
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Ludwig I of Bavaria. Engraving by Albert Reindel after a portrait painting by Joseph Karl Stieler (1825). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_I..jpg |
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Sir James Mackintosh. Engraving by T. W. Harland (undated) after the portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Wilkin06.jpg |
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Prince Klemens Metternich. Engraving by T.W. Harland (undated) after the portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ALISON(1850)_p12.092_METTERNICH.jpg |
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Adam Müller. Lithograph portrait of around 1815 by an unknown artist. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_Heinrich_Müller.jpg |
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Johannes von Müller. Portrait painting by Anton Wilhelm Tischbein (1787-88). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MuellerJ.jpg |
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Jacques Necker. Portrait painting by Joseph-Siffrein Duplessis (1783). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Necker,_Jacques_-_Duplessis.jpg |
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Barthold Georg Niebuhr. Portrait drawing by Louise Seidler (undated). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louise_Seidler_-_Niebuhr_-_Uhde_222.jpg |
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Juliette Récamier. Portrait painting by François Gérard. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:François_Pascal_Simon_Gérard_003.jpg |
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Johann Friedrich Reichardt. Engraving by Karl Traugott Riedel (1814) after a portrait painting by Anton Graff (1794). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JohannFriedrichReichardtMusikerS130.jpg |
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Jean Paul (Richter). Portrait painting by Friedrich Meier (1810). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Paul_by_Friedrich_Meier_1810.jpg |
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Henry Crabb Robinson. Engraving by William Holl after a photographic portrait by Maull & Co. (1869). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_H_Crabb_Robinson_(crop).png |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Pastel portrait by Friedrich Tieck (c. 1801). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FriedrichWilhelmSchelling.jpg |
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Friedrich Schiller. Portrait painting by Ludovike Simanowitz (1793-94). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Schiller_by_Ludovike_Simanowiz.jpg |
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Caroline Schlegel. Portrait painting by Friedrich August Tischbein (1798). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tischbein_-_Caroline_Schelling.jpg |
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Dorothea Schlegel. Portrait painting by Anton Graff (c. 1790). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorothea_Schlegel.jpg |
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Johann Adolf Schlegel. Portrait painting by G. W. Thielo (undated). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Adolf_Schlegel.jpg |
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Friedrich Schlegel. Engraving after the portrait drawing by Philipp Veit (1811). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friederich_von_Schlegel.jpg |
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Friedrich Schleiermacher. Engraving by J. H. Lips (1800). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Daniel_Ernst_Schleiermacher_2.jpg |
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Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi. Engraving by de Pernel (undated). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Charles_de_Sismondi.jpg |
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Erik Magnus von Staël-Holstein. Portrait painting by Adolf Erik Wertmüller (c. 1782). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erik_Magnus_Staël_von_Holstein.jpg |
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Germaine de Staël-Holstein. Portrait painting by François Gérard (c. 1810). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Madame_de_Staël.jpg |
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Henrik Steffens. Lithograph by Friedrich Jentzen after a drawing by Franz Krüger (1828). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henrich_Steffens2.jpg |
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Freiherr vom Stein. Drawing by Friedrich Olivier (1821). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woldemar_Friedrich_von_Olivier_-_Heinrich_Friedrich_Karl_Freiherr_Vom_Stein.jpg |
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Freiherr vom Stein zum Altenstein. Portrait by unknown artist (undated). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altenstein.jpg |
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Friedrich Tieck. Lithograph by Johann Joseph Sprick after a drawing by Franz Krüger (early 1840s). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FriedrichTieck.jpg |
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Ludwig Tieck. Engraving after a portrait painting by Joseph Karl Stieler (1838). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ludwig_Tieck.jpg |
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Karl August Varnhagen von Ense. Drawing by Samuel Friedrich Diez (1839). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl-Varnhagen-von-Ense-1839-Zeichnung-von-Samuel-Friedrich-Diez.jpg |
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Rahel Varnhagen. Engraving by an unknown artist (undated). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rahel_Varnhagen.jpg |
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Philipp Veit. Self-portrait (1816). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veitself.jpg |
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Johann Heinrich Voss. Portrait painting by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner (1797). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Heinrich_Voss (Schöner).jpg |
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Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker. Engraving by Adolf Hohneck (1840). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Gottlieb_Welcker_2.jpg |
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Zacharias Werner. Etching after a drawing by E. T. A. Hoffmann (undated). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E._T._A._Hoffmann_-_Zacharias_Werner.jpg |
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Christoph Martin Wieland. Portrait painting by Ferdinand Jagemann (1805). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christoph_Martin_Wieland_by_Ferdinand_Jagemann_1805_Cut.jpg |
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Portrait painting by Anton Raphael Mengs (1761-62). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Joachim_Winckelmann_(Raphael_Mengs_after_1755).jpg |