Editing August Wilhelm Schlegel (section)

==Childhood and education==
[[File:Domenico Quaglio Marktkirche Hannover.jpg|thumb|The Marktkirche at the beginning of the 19th century; oil painting after [[Domenico Quaglio the Younger|Domenico Quaglio]], 1832]]

Schlegel was born in [[Hanover]], where his father, [[Johann Adolf Schlegel]], was a [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] pastor. He was educated at the Hanover [[gymnasium (Germany)|gymnasium]] and at the [[University of Göttingen]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}{{Better source needed|date=April 2022}} Initially studying theology, he received a thorough philological training under [[Christian Gottlob Heyne|Heyne]] and became an admirer and friend of [[Gottfried August Bürger|Bürger]], with whom he was engaged in an ardent study of [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Petrarch]] and [[William Shakespeare]]. Schlegel met with [[Caroline Schelling]] and [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]]. In 1790 his brother [[Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel]] came to Göttingen. Both were influenced by [[Johann Gottfried Herder]], [[Immanuel Kant]], [[Tiberius Hemsterhuis]], [[Johann Winckelmann]] and [[Karl Theodor von Dalberg]]. From 1791 to 1795, Schlegel was tutor to Willem Ferdinand Mogge Muilman, the son of a Dutch banker, who lived at Herengracht 476 in Amsterdam.<ref>[The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry by Roger Paulin, p. 59]</ref>