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Who was Friedrich Schlegel's wife?

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Dorothea Mendelssohn was a German writer, translator, and salonist. She was the wife of Friedrich Schlegel, a German philosopher, and a close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Mendelssohn was born in Berlin to a wealthy Jewish family. She married Schlegel in 1797, and they had three children together.
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