"Critical Edition of August Wilhelm Schlegel´s Lectures", Vol. IV-VI. (Vienna Lectures and Lectures at the University of Bonn) Completion of the Critical Edition of the Lectures - Request for an extension of the project

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Georg Braungart
• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: from 2012 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 213033403

The >Critical Edition of August Wilhelm Schlegel´s Lectures< contains a central part of the oeuvre of one of the most important innovators of German Romanticism; most of his international impact derives from his lectures. A. W. Schlegel´s works have never been presented in a satisfactory way. The last edition of his complete works dates from 1846/48 and was compiled by Eduard Böcking, Schlegel´s literary executor. Since then there has been no attempt to collect Schlegel´s complete works, let alone assemble an edition that would satisfy today´s philological standards. Some of his lectures have never been published.During the work on the project, some priorities had to be modified and new discoveries had to be integrated into the overall conception. While editing Schlegel´s Vienna lectures it turned out that it would not be appropriate to integrate the considerable paralipomena into the critical apparatus of the lectures: Instead, they will be presented and commented on in a separate apparatus. The Latin lectures >Antiquitates Etruscae< which are significant for the history of the discipline, had to be added to the plan. For the very first time, they are being translated and receiving comprehensive critical commentary. Further noteworthy is the newly found transcript of Schlegel´s lectures on the >History of the German Language and Literature< by Moritz Eduard Pinder. It is far more detailed than Schlegel´s own manuscript. Finally, the 60 remaining lists of Schlegel´s audience in Bonn have proved to yield important information. They have been completely transcribed and evaluated. These lists are not only an important tool for the work on the project, but also a telling document regarding Schlegel´s Europe-wide reception.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants