 A.W. Schlegel can rightly be regarded as one of the first and most significant founders of Indology in Western Europe. Apart from his translations of Sanskrit texts, and the publishing the scholarly journal Indische Bibliothek (1820–1830), he set up a Sanskrit printing press with which he provided the first printed editions of the Bhagavadgītā (1823) and Rāmāyana (1829) in continental Europe.