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Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721–1793)
Schlegel, Johann Adolf (shlā’gel). A German poet; born at Meissen, Sept. 18, 1721; died at Hanover, Sept. 16, 1793. Of his poetry only a few religious poems remain. He translated and published, with additions of his own, Batteux’s ‘Restriction of the Fine Arts to a Single Principle’ (1759).