 Alongside his academic work, A.W. Schlegel was a remarkably talented translator; he translated over 16 Shakespearean plays, five plays by Calderón de la Barca, and selected pieces by Dante, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Miguel de Cervantes, Torquato Tasso, and Luís de Camões, published in 1804 as Blumensträusse italiänischer, spanischer, und portugiesischer Poesie, (Bouquets of Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Poetry). He also made the first complete translation of the Bhagavadgītā from Sanskrit into Latin, which helped to promote and popularize the book in Germany (cf. Adluri and Bagche 2014: 33f.).