Editing August Wilhelm Schlegel (section)

==Travel and publications==
Schlegel was 50 years old and his own master.<ref>{{cite book | author1= Roger Paulin |title=The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry |publisher= Open Book Publishers |year=2016 |page=415 |isbn=9781909254954 }}</ref> He was financially independent and could travel at his own expense.<ref>{{cite book | author1= Roger Paulin |title=The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry |publisher= Open Book Publishers |year=2016 |page=416 |isbn=9781909254954 }}</ref> Schlegel's Vienna Lectures had been published and were read across Europe and in [[Saint Petersburg]]. Therefore, he could cultivate friendships with the educated elite.<ref>{{cite book | author1= Roger Paulin |title=The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry |publisher= Open Book Publishers |year=2016 |page=421 |isbn=9781909254954 }}</ref> He continued to lecture on art and literature, publishing in 1827 ''On the Theory and History of the Plastic Arts'',<ref name="colliers">{{Cite Collier's|wstitle=Schlegel, August Wilhelm von}}</ref> and in 1828 two volumes of critical writings (''Kritische Schriften'').<ref name="colliers"/>{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Schlegel's translation of [[William Shakespeare]], begun in Jena, was ultimately completed, under the superintendence of [[Ludwig Tieck]], [[Dorothea Tieck]], and [[Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin]]. This rendering is considered one of the best poetical translations in German.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Schlegel did find the time to pursue his fascination for [[India]] and dedicated himself to the study of [[Sanskrit]].<ref>{{cite book | author1= Roger Paulin |title=The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry |publisher= Open Book Publishers |year=2016 |page=422 |isbn=9781909254954 }}</ref> From 1823 til 1830 he published the journal ''Indische Bibliothek''. In 1823 edited the ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'', with a [[Latin]] translation, and in 1829, the ''Ramayana''. This was followed by his 1832 work ''Reflections on the Study of the Asiatic Languages''.<ref name="colliers"/>{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Schlegel became convinced that the origin of Germanic people could be identified in [[linguistic]] evidence and believed that languages could be used to reconstruct patterns of [[human migration]], so he studied the epics of [[Persia]] and India.<ref>{{cite book | author1= Roger Paulin |title=The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry |publisher= Open Book Publishers |year=2016 |page=475 |isbn=9781909254954 }}</ref> Schlegel published on this matter, attesting Indians, Egyptians, Greeks, and [[Aztecs]] the benefit of [[progress]]. He was impressed with their architecture, their mathematics, and their technology. In 1837 he wrote the preface to the German translation of [[James Cowles Prichard]]'s book ''An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology'' which originally had been published in 1819.<ref>{{cite book | author1= Roger Paulin |title=The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel: Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry |publisher= Open Book Publishers |year=2016 |page=476 |isbn=9781909254954 }}</ref>

In 1835, Schlegel became head of the committee organising [[Beethoven Monument (Bonn)|a monument in memory of Ludwig van Beethoven]] in Bonn, the [[Ludwig van Beethoven|composer]]'s birthplace. Schlegel died in Bonn in 1845,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} three months before its official unveiling.