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cious memory and sound understanding, but was excessively irritable and vain,
and made enemies. Scholars of subsequent ages have vied in panegyrising him,
but his fame as a scholar and critic, though very great in his own days, was far
eclipsed by that of his son Joseph.
S. Joseph Justus Scaliger. See below.
Scaliger, Joseph Justus; scholar and critic (1540—1609, aet. 69).
Was well
educated, and he read intensely on his own account. He was one of that
constellation of great scholars who ornamented the University of Leyden at the
end of the sixteenth century. He was wholly absorbed in study. He never
married. Was irritable and vain, like his father. As a critic he is considered to
have been pre-eminent, and there are very few scholars who can be compared
with him.
F. Julius Caesar Scaliger. See above.
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von; celebrated German scholar, critic, and poet; a
translator of Shakespeare, and of Indian literature. At an early age he showed
remarkable aptitude for languages. His fault, if any, was that of aiming too
much at universality. He attached himself to Madame de Stael, and entirely
abandoned himself to her intellectual influence. Died aet. 78. He and his brother
have been called the “literary Dioscures” of their day. His grandfather was
Councillor of the Court of Appeal of Meissen. He educated his children—the
father and the uncles—carefully.
F. Jean Adolphe; preacher of repute, also writer of poems.
U. Jean Elie; poet, dramatist, and critic. “He is without exception the best dramatic
author that Germany produced during the first half of the eighteenth century.”
Died aet. 31, overworked,
U. Jean Henri; Danish Historiographer Royal. Resided in Copenhagen.
B. Friedrich Carl Wilhelm von Schlegel. See below.
Schlegel, Friedrich Carl Wilhelm von; historian, philosopher, and philologist. Was
not precocious as a child, but became strongly drawn to literature when a
youth. He lectured on the philosophy of history and language, edited, wrote
poems, and at last became a diplomatic official
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