Johan Frederik Vilhelm Schlegel

Johan Frederik (Friderich) Wilhelm Schlegel (4 October 1765 - 19 July 1836) was a Danish jurist.

In 1786, he obtained a travel grant from Fonden ad usus publicos and spent several years at German universities.

In 1787, he received a distinction (accessit ) at the University of Göttingen for the dissertation De eo, quod justum est circa emigrationem civium.

[1] Schlegel married Marie Elisabeth Hellfried (1773-1851(, a daughter of County Governor Johan Carl Frederik Hellfried (1739–1810) and Frederikke Vilhelmine v. Jessen (1749–1817), on 17 May 1793 in St. Nicolas' Church in Copenhagen.

He purchased the estate Falkensteen at Slagelse in 1811 but already next year ceded it to Ludvig Manthey in exchange for Søllerødgaard in Søllerød north of Copenhagen.