Carl August Schlegel

Carl Christian August Schlegel (also Karl August Schlegel; born November 15, 1762 in Hanover ; † September 9, 1789 in Madras (today: Chennai )) was a German cartographer and genius officer .

Life

Carl August Schlegel was the seventh child of Johanna Christina Erdmuthe, b. Hübsch and Johann Schlegel were born in Hanover. He was the older of the two last-born brothers August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich Schlegel , who are considered to be co-founders of German Indology at the beginning of the 19th century .

Carl August Schlegel had joined one of two volunteer regiments of the Electorate of Hanover , which was founded in 1782 by King George III. had been ordered to Madras, India . The troop strength totaled 2,800 men, of which ten years later only half returned. Many had died in the Battle of Calicut in 1790 in the Third Mysore War or died of disease as a result.

In Madras and Fort St. George , Lieutenant Schlegel began to work as a cartographer at the request of General John Dalling and continued this work under the new Governor Archibald Campbell . He wrote a military study on the geography of the Carnatics , a region between the Eastern Ghats and the Coromandel Coast . A manuscript by Schlegel with the title "An attempt at a military geography of Carnatik" can be found in the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen, the map of the same area made by him is kept in the map department of the British Library in London.

In the preface to On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians , Friedrich Schlegel recalls the early death of his brother and notes that " in the last years of his life, he studied the country, the constitution and the Indian mind had begun. August Wilhelm Schlegel devotes a poetic tribute to his brother in the poem. Neoptolemus to Diodes' 1800 dead brother said to him, the survivors:

Brother, do you remember mine, the stranger whom his instincts first, then the lands, the sea, and finally death removes you!

It can be assumed that the fate of Carl August Schlegel also led the brothers to a certain extent to turn to the Indian subcontinent , but contrary to their deliberately speculative approach, they had never set foot on the continent of their "romantic yearning", but on site , Carl August Schlegel had made his contribution to the consolidation of British rule.

Individual evidence

↑ genealogy.net
↑ Gerhard Koch (Ed.): Imhoff India Driver, A travel report from the 18th century in letters and pictures. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-483-8 , p. 19.
↑ cf. Note by AW Schlegel on the death of his brother, in: August Wilhelm Schlegel: Fourth book. Rhythmic poems. In: Eduard Böcking (Ed.): Complete works. Volume 2, Leipzig 1846-47. (Reprint: Verlag Olms, Hildesheim 1971-72, pp. 5-42)
↑ Roger Paulin: Antiquating Romanticism: On August Wilhelm Schlegel's Elegies in Classical Meters. In: Ernst Behler et al. (Ed.): Athenaeum, year book for romanticism. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3-506-70953-4 , p. 70.
^ Ernst Behler et al. (Ed.): Critical Friedrich Schlegel Complete Edition. Volume VIII: Studies in Philosophy and Theology 1796–1824. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1975, ISBN 3-506-77808-0 , p. 111.
↑ In a note by AW Schlegel, which precedes the poem dedicated to the brother, he writes of the " annoyances " he had experienced in the " last years of his life " and which " only ended shortly before his death to his complete satisfaction " and gives as appreciation of his brother a poem composed by an unknown author in the "Madras Courier" of October 21, 1789, which he follows up with his own. see. August Wilhelm Schlegel: Fourth Book. Rhythmic poems. In: Eduard Böcking (Ed.): Complete works. Volume 2, Leipzig 1846-47. (Reprint: Verlag Olms, Hildesheim 1971-72, pp. 5-42)
↑ cf. Klaus Manger: Instead of “Kotzebuesieen only poetry?” To the lyrical poems of August Wilhelm Schlegel. In: York-Gothart Mix, Jochen Strobel (ed.): The European August Wilhelm Schlegel: Romantic cultural transfer - romantic worlds of knowledge. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022846-5 , pp. 77-92.
↑ cf. Gerhard Koch (Ed.): Imhoff India Driver, A travel report from the 18th century in letters and pictures. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, p. 19.

personal data
SURNAME	Schlegel, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schlegel, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cartographer and genius officer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1789
Place of death	Chennai

[1] y.net

[2] Gerhard Koch (Ed.): Imhoff India Driver, A travel report from the 18th century in letters and pictures. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-483-8 , p. 19.

[3] . Note by AW Schlegel on the death of his brother, in: August Wilhelm Schlegel: Fourth book. Rhythmic poems. In: Eduard Böcking (Ed.): Complete works. Volume 2, Leipzig 1846-47. (Reprint: Verlag Olms, Hildesheim 1971-72, pp. 5-42)

[4] Roger Paulin: Antiquating Romanticism: On August Wilhelm Schlegel's Elegies in Classical Meters. In: Ernst Behler et al. (Ed.): Athenaeum, year book for romanticism. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1993, ISBN 3-506-70953-4 , p. 70.

[5] Ernst Behler et al. (Ed.): Critical Friedrich Schlegel Complete Edition. Volume VIII: Studies in Philosophy and Theology 1796–1824. Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1975, ISBN 3-506-77808-0 , p. 111.

[6] In a note by AW Schlegel, which precedes the poem dedicated to the brother, he writes of the " annoyances " he had experienced in the " last years of his life " and which " only ended shortly before his death to his complete satisfaction " and gives as appreciation of his brother a poem composed by an unknown author in the "Madras Courier" of October 21, 1789, which he follows up with his own. see. August Wilhelm Schlegel: Fourth Book. Rhythmic poems. In: Eduard Böcking (Ed.): Complete works. Volume 2, Leipzig 1846-47. (Reprint: Verlag Olms, Hildesheim 1971-72, pp. 5-42)

[7] . Klaus Manger: Instead of “Kotzebuesieen only poetry?” To the lyrical poems of August Wilhelm Schlegel. In: York-Gothart Mix, Jochen Strobel (ed.): The European August Wilhelm Schlegel: Romantic cultural transfer - romantic worlds of knowledge. De Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022846-5 , pp. 77-92.

[8] . Gerhard Koch (Ed.): Imhoff India Driver, A travel report from the 18th century in letters and pictures. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, p. 19.