August Wilhelm

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German Romantic human literary critic poet translator university teacher

August Wilhelm was a prominent German poet, translator, and literary critic of the early Romantic period, best known for his influential Shakespeare translations and work on Romantic theory.

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Label	Occurrences
August Wilhelm canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German Romantic ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
birthName	Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel NERFINISHED ⓘ
centuryOfActivity	18th century ⓘ 19th century ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Electorate of Saxony NERFINISHED ⓘ Prussia ⓘ surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
dateOfBirth	1767-09-08 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1845-05-12 ⓘ
employer	Madame de Staël NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Bonn NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Jena NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroup	German ⓘ
familyName	Schlegel NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Romantic theory ⓘ comparative literature ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ translation studies ⓘ
genre	essay ⓘ lecture ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ poetry ⓘ
givenName	August NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilhelm ⓘ
hasHonorificTitle	Privy Councillor of Prussia NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Friedrich Schlegel NERFINISHED ⓘ German Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Taylor Coleridge NERFINISHED ⓘ later Shakespeare scholarship ⓘ
influencedBy	Friedrich Schiller NERFINISHED ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Johann Gottlieb Fichte NERFINISHED ⓘ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe NERFINISHED ⓘ William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Latin ⓘ
memberOf	German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina NERFINISHED ⓘ Jena Romantic circle NERFINISHED ⓘ
movement	German Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ
name	August Wilhelm Schlegel NERFINISHED ⓘ
nativeLanguage	German ⓘ
notableFor	formulation of early Romantic literary theory ⓘ influential German translations of Shakespeare ⓘ
notableStudent	Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	Athenäum (journal, co-editor) NERFINISHED ⓘ German translations of William Shakespeare's plays ⓘ Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Translations of works by Calderón de la Barca ⓘ Translations of works by Dante ⓘ Translations of works by Dante Alighieri ⓘ Translations of works by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué ⓘ Translations of works by Giovanni Battista Guarini ⓘ Translations of works by Giovanni Boccaccio ⓘ Translations of works by Luís de Camões ⓘ Translations of works by Miguel de Cervantes ⓘ Translations of works by Pedro Calderón de la Barca ⓘ Translations of works by Petrarch ⓘ Translations of works by Pindar ⓘ Translations of works by Sophocles ⓘ Translations of works by Torquato Tasso ⓘ Translations of works by William Shakespeare ⓘ
occupation	literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ university teacher ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Hanover NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Bonn NERFINISHED ⓘ
residence	Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonn NERFINISHED ⓘ France ⓘ Jena NERFINISHED ⓘ Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ Weimar NERFINISHED ⓘ
sibling	Friedrich Schlegel NERFINISHED ⓘ
spouse	Caroline Schlegel NERFINISHED ⓘ

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: August Wilhelm
Description of subject: August Wilhelm was a prominent German poet, translator, and literary critic of the early Romantic period, best known for his influential Shakespeare translations and work on Romantic theory.

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Schlegel → givenName → August Wilhelm ⓘ

subject surface form: August Wilhelm Schlegel