 But, in order for these ideas to have the transformative effect that the German Romantic movement actually had within and beyond Germany, they needed to be not only systematized and organized into a more tangible unit, but also disseminated to broader audiences. This is precisely the role that A.W. Schlegel’s lectures played (cf. Franzel 2014). As Jochen Schulte-Sasse, argues: Schlegel’s Berlin Vorlesungen über schöhne Kunst und Literatur (‘Lectures on Fine Arts and Literature’), which he gave between 1801 and 1804, “have to be seen as a programmatic attempt to explain early Romantic theories of art in a relatively ‘popular’ and accessible form” (Schulte-Sasse [1985] 1988: 136). Indeed, the last series of these lectures (1803–1804) were dedicated entirely to the ‘History of Romantic Literature’. These Berlin lectures, however, were not published until 1884 (and to my knowledge never translated into English), but Schlegel made an effort to circulate them; for instance he sent them to Schelling, who then used them for his own Jena lectures on art. To be sure, Schlegel’s later Vienna lectures, which were translated into several languages and rapidly disseminated across Europe, were largely based on his Berlin lectures.