The Project
The project brings together the entirety of August Wilhelm Schlegel’s correspondence into a digital edition, that is, approximately 5,000 letters, in part previously printed letters, in part letters which have until now only been ... read more
August Wilhelm Schlegel
To this day August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845) has received far less attention among academic researchers than has his brilliant younger brother Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) and undeservedly so. He was assuredly the most important ... read more
The Literary Estate
The legacy of written materials was purchased from the Königliche Bibliothek Dresden (Dresden Royal Library) in 1873. It comprises approximately 12 running feet, including biographical collections, letters, poems, translations, lectures and ... read more
Technical and Organizational Workflow
A goal of the project is to contribute to the optimizing of sustainable technical organizational methods with the use of standardized workflows for the compilation, digitization and presentation of digitized collections as well as for data ... read more
Revision of the Printed Letter Editions
The previously printed letters to and from August Wilhelm Schlegel out of over 150 publications are integrated into the edition at hand with the use of digital representation. The full texts were generated with OCR for the Roman typeface printings(Antiqua) ... read more
Guidelines for New Transcriptions
The manuscripts are reproduced as diplomatic transcriptions, that is, the historical and individual orthographic spelling and punctuation are retained without rectification. Spelling errors are left uncorrected. Direction words (Kustoden) ... read more
A Note on Citations
That one may cite without reservation from the various sources that have been made here available (i.e. manuscript digitization, printing digitization, printed full text, transcription), we offer a citation recommendation for each ... read more
Milestones
Several milestones prepared and followed the release of the first beta version „Digitale Edition der Korrespondenz August Wilhelm Schlegels“ on June 2, 2014, you can find them here ... read more
Publications
2004: Online-Katalog zur Ausstellung „Papiers à Mr. Schlegel“ zur Erstpräsentation des ersteigerten Nachlasses aus Schloss Coppet, bearbeitet von Thomas Bürger und Cornelia Bögel, 12. Juni bis 11. September 2004, ... read more
The Exhibition
The exhibition “Awakening of the Romantic Universe: August Wilhelm Schlegel” (Aufbruch ins romantische Universum: August Wilhlem Schlegel) was hosted by the Frankfurter Goethe-Haus – Freies Deutsches Hochstift from ... read more