August Wilhelm Schlegel in 1835

In this year his most famous student sported only yet some bumfluff, but the future great beard was already reading much and “dilligent”. And his self-consciously handsome teacher… well so much was set out for the future here: translating almost all of the Bard, meeting with Hörner, teaching on Homer, promoting Quixote, chatting elephants, juggernauts, India/EIC-hatreds, with GWFH as ‘the enemy camp’, cosmopolitainism, university politics, criticism and more. Before then, AW Schlegel was the more famous brother, 20 years after fighting Napoleon in fulfillment of what he had said when he pretty much invented/reinvented the soundbite/meme style in their journal “Athenaeum” – including at least one aphorism that really resonates: ‘Ihr verlangt immer neue Gedanken? Thut etwas neues, so läßt sich etwas neues darüber sagen.’ (Ath, 1, 180, 1798) [You always demand new thoughts? Do something new, and something new can be said about it]. More soon.