Editing August Wilhelm Schlegel (section)

==Tutoring==
Early in 1804, he made the acquaintance of [[Madame de Staël]] in Berlin, who hired him as a tutor for her children. After divorcing his wife Caroline, Schlegel travelled with Madame de Staël to [[Switzerland]], [[Italy]] and [[France]], acting as an adviser in her literary work.<ref>''De l'Allemagne'' published in 1813.</ref> In 1807 he attracted much attention in France by an essay in the French, ''Comparaison entre la [[Phèdre]] de Racine et celle d'Euripide'', in which he attacked [[French classicism]] from the standpoint of the [[Romantic school]]. His famous lectures on dramatic art and literature (''Über dramatische Kunst und Literatur'', 1809–1811), which have been translated into most European languages, were delivered at Vienna in 1808.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}{{sfn|Böhme|1920}} He was accompanied by De Staël and her children. In 1810 Schlegel was ordered to leave the [[Act of Mediation|Swiss Confederation]] as an enemy of the French literature.<ref>[L.M. Child (1836) The biography of Madame de Stael, p. 48]</ref>

{{blockquote|For Schlegel, the magic of a work of art is that it brings us into a different world, with all its own internal coherence, and this is why it needs to become organic and complete unto itself. Therefore, its purpose should not be to reflect the real world with naturalism, but rather to create its own world, which could never be a question of applying a set of rules and principles to a particular matter (paintings, words, marble), such as classicist principles seemed to do.<ref name="plato.stanford.edu"/>}}

In 1812, he travelled with De Staël, her [[fiancé]] [[Albert de Rocca]] and her children to [[Moscow]], St. Petersburg and [[Stockholm]] and acted as secretary of [[Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte]], through whose influence the right of his family to noble rank was revived. After this, he joined again the household of Mme. de Staël until her death in 1817, for like [[Mathieu de Montmorency]] he was one of her intimates until the end of her life. Schlegel was made a professor of [[Indology]] at the [[University of Bonn]] in 1818, and during the remainder of his life occupied himself chiefly with oriental studies. He founded a special printing office for [[Sanskrit]]. As an orientalist, he was unable to adapt himself to the new methods opened up by [[Franz Bopp|Bopp]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}{{sfn|Böhme|1920}} He corresponded with [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]], a linguist. After the death of Madame de Staël 14 July 1817, Schlegel married in 1818 a daughter of [[Heinrich Paulus]], but this union was dissolved in 1821.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}