Johann Adolf Schlegel

His paternal grandmother Johanna Dorothea Schlegel (1670–1726) was a daughter of the Saxon chief clerk Paul Andreas Vockel (1623–1684) and Christine Marie Sultzberger (born 1640).

He rose to the consistory of the Hanoverian Lutheran Church and the deanship at the Neustädter Kirche in 1775, dying in Hanover in 1793.

He was a noted contributor to the Bremer Beiträge, a literary journal popular at the time.

He also published a commentary on Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe, translating it into German.

At Johann Adolf Schlegel's paternal grandfather Johann Elias Schlegel was eldest sister Rosina Magdalena Schlegel (1650–1701), who in 1667 married lutheran theologian Jacob Wächtler [de] (1638–1702), by whom she had ten children, inclidung Christoph Jacob Wächtler (1668–1721), Rosina Magdalena Wächtler (1671–1748), who was married evangelical Lutheran theologian Michael Heinrich Reinhard Sr. [de] (1676–1732), Johann Christian Wächtler (1673–1728) and Rosina Elisabeth Wächtler (1683–1775), who was married evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman Christian Ernst Mussigk [de] (1671–1724).