The Project
The project brings together the entirety of August Wilhelm Schlegel’s correspondence into a digital edition encompassing approximately 5,000 letters, in part previously printed letters, in part letters which have until now only been ... read more
August Wilhelm Schlegel
August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845) has until the present received far less attention from academic researchers than has his brilliant younger brother Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) and ... read more
The Literary Estate
The legacy of written materials was purchased by 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 optimization of sustainable technical organizational methods with the use of standardized workflows for the compilation, digitalization and presentation of digital collections as well as for data ... read more
Revision of the Printed Letter Editions
The previously printed letters from and addressed to August Wilhelm Schlegel out of over 150 publications are integrated into the edition at hand using digital representation. The full texts were generated with OCR for the Roman typeface printings(Antiqua) ... read more
Guidelines for New Transcriptions
The manuscript texts are reproduced as diplomatic transcriptions, that is, the historical and individual orthographic spelling and punctuation are retained without correction. Spelling errors are also 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