# Johann Adolf Schlegel

Johann Adolf Schlegel (17 September 1721 – 16 September 1793) was a German poet and clergyman.

## Biography

Schlegel was born in Meißen, Saxony on 17 September 1721, and was the brother of Johann Elias Schlegel (1719–1749) and Johann Heinrich Schlegel [de] (1726–1780). His parents was Collegiate Syndicate Johann Friedrich Schlegel [de] (1689–1748) and his wife Maria Rebecca Schlegel, nee Wilcke (1695–1736), daughter of Superintendent Georg Leberecht Wilcke. His paternal grandfather was Appellationsrat Johann Elias Schlegel (1664–1718). His paternal grandmother Johanna Dorothea Schlegel (1670–1726) was a daughter of the Saxon chief clerk Paul Andreas Vockel (1623–1684) and Christine Marie Sultzberger (born 1640). He was a greatgrandson of Superintendent Christoph Schlegel [de] (1613–1678) und greatgreatgrandson of Theologian Martin Schlegel (Theologian) [de] (1581–1640). After finishing his studies in Leipzig, he became a deacon and teacher at Pforta in 1751. In 1754, he became a pastor and professor in Zerbst, before moving to become a pastor in Hannover at the Marktkirche in 1759. He rose to the consistory of the Hanoverian Lutheran Church and the deanship at the Neustädter Kirche in 1775, dying in Hanover in 1793.
He was a noted contributor to the Bremer Beiträge, a literary journal popular at the time. Despite his active work in literary circles, only one hymn has survived to the present day out of all his poetry and musical works. He also published a commentary on Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe, translating it into German.
Schlegel died in Hanover, Brunswick-Lüneburg.

## Family

Johann Adolf Schlegel was married Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe Hübsch (1735–1811), daughter of math teacher Johann George Gotthelf Hübsch (1689–1773) and his wife Johanna Sophie Hübsch, nee Walter (1710–1768). They had ten children:
His sons August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767–1845) and Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) were influential early members of the Romantic movement.
The other children were Gotthelf Adolph Friedrich Schlegel (1753–1766), Georg Adolph Bonaventura Schlegel (1755–1782), General Superintendent Karl August Moritz Schlegel [de] (1756–1826), Consistorial Councillor and member of the Assembly of Estates for the Kingdom of Hanover Johann Carl Fürchtegott Schlegel [de] (1758–1831), Erdmuthe Charlotte Friederike Schlegel (1759–1826), who was married Ludwig Emmanuel Ernst (1752–1826), Henriette Wilhelmine Schlegel (1761–1801), who was married Johann Sigismund Ernst (1760–1834), Cartographer Carl August Schlegel [de] (1762–1789) and Friedrich Anton Heinrich Schlegel (1764–1784).
His niece Friederike Henriette Eleonore Schlegel (1748–1825), was married classical philologist and school principal in Plauen Gottlieb Wilhelm Irmisch (1732–1794), and others nephew was Danish jurist Johan Frederik Vilhelm Schlegel (1765–1836), who was a son of his brother Johann Heinrich Schlegel.

## Distant relatives

At Johann Adolf Schlegel's paternal grandfather Johann Elias Schlegel was eldest sister Rosina Magdalena Schlegel (1650–1701), who in 1667 married lutheran theologian Jacob Wächtler [de] (1638–1702), by whom she had ten children, inclidung Christoph Jacob Wächtler (1668–1721), Rosina Magdalena Wächtler (1671–1748), who was married evangelical Lutheran theologian Michael Heinrich Reinhard Sr. [de] (1676–1732), Johann Christian Wächtler (1673–1728) and Rosina Elisabeth Wächtler (1683–1775), who was married evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman Christian Ernst Mussigk [de] (1671–1724).

### Second cousins
#### Children of Christoph Jacob Wächtler

* Jakob Salomon Wächtler (1697–1750)
* Elisabeth Margaretha Wächtler (1698–1761), in 1715 got married Joachim Friedrich Günther (1680–1750)
* Johann Friedrich Wächtler (1700–1704)
* Christian Ernst Wächtler (born 1703)
* Dorothea Elisabeth Wächtler (born 1705), in 1727 got married Peter Wilhelm Christopher Leo
* Sabine Marie Wächtler (born 1707), in 1723 got married Justus Wolfgang Günther (1694–1738)
* Christoph Jakob Wächtler (1709–1773), married Sophie Dorothea Kaulis, his son was Salomon Ernst Siegfried Wächtler (1740–1801)
* Charlotte Christiana Wächtler (born 1712), in 1736 got married Justus Heinrich Dietrich Neuhaus

#### Children of Rosina Magdalena Wächtler

* Rosina Magdalena Adelheid Reinhard (1701–1727), in 1726 got married Doctor and urban physicist Christian Wilhelm Siegfried
* Julius Sebastian Gottlieb Reinhard (1703–1703)
* Sophia Catharina Friderike Reinhard (born 1705), in 1729 got married Court and Consistorial Council Caspar Paul Janus (died 1731), then in 1738 got married sächs weißenfelsischen Rat and Amtsvogt Georg Wilhelm Dathe
* Michael Heinrich Reinhard Jr. [de] (1706–1767), evangelical theologian, was married twice, the first marriage was married to Rachel Wilhelmine Dathe, after his first death he married again Anna Marie Christiane Bucke (1712–1791), daughter of Johann Christian Bucke (1672–1723) and his wife Anna Maria Christiana Bucke, nee Ganzland (b. 1687), had seven children:
** Raphaela Henriette Wilhelmine Reinhard (1737–1790), got married Christian Gottlob Curdes (1727–1792)
** Anna Magdalena Christiane Reinhard (born 1742), got married Johann Adam Pabst (1737–1805)
** Sophie Wilhelmine Marie Reinhard (born 1747), got married Johann Friedrich Lippold (1736–1799)
** Michael Heinrich Reinhard (1748–1819)
** Charlotte Eusebia Elisabeth Reinhard (1749–1821), got married Theodor Gottlob Schmidt (1741–1796)
** Johann Christian Reinhard (1752–1753)
** Johann Christian Reinhard (1753–1818)
* Johanna Sophia Reinhard (1708–1757)
* Rosina Salome Charlotte Reinhard (1711–1712)
* Felicitas Theodora Reinhard (born 1713)

#### Children of Johann Christian Wächtler

* Christiane Dorothea Wächtler (1704–1771), in 1726 got married Carl Sigismund Franke (1698–1763), her daughter was Christiane Dorothea Franke (1727–1763), who was married Johann Christian Sintenis (1708–1771), by whom she had four children: Carl Heinrich Sintenis (1744–1816), Christiane Wilhelmine Sintenis (1746–1814), Christian Friedrich Sintenis (1750–1820) and Johann Christian Siegmund Sintenis (1756–1821).