Schlegel, Dorothea von (Berlin, 1763-1839, Frankfurt/Main), the eldest daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, married S. Veit, a banker, in 1783. The marriage was dissolved in 1798, and in 1804 she married Friedrich Schlegel, with whom she had lived for some years. She actively supported Schlegel in advancing the new conception of Romantic literature (see Romantik), and herself wrote an unfinished novel (Florentin, 1801). She also translated French medieval romances (Romantische Dichtungen des Mittelalters, 1804) and made a German version of Mme de Staël's novel Corinne ou l'Italie (Corinne oder Italien, 4 vols., 1807-8). Like her husband she was converted to Roman Catholicism in 1808, and in 1815, as a consequence of his ennoblement, she became Dorothea von Schlegel. Living in Vienna from 1808 to 1830, she devoted herself mainly to the service of the Roman Catholic Church. She lived her last years in Frankfurt in the house of her son, the painter Philipp Veit.

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