Johann Elias Schlegel (January 17, 1719 – August 13, 1749) was a German critic and dramatic poet.
In 1743 he became private secretary to his relative, von Spener, the Saxon ambassador at the Danish court.
[1] Schlegel was a contributor to the Bremer Beiträge and for some time, while he was living in Denmark, edited a weekly periodical, Der Fremde.
[1] His works were edited (in 5 vols., 1761–1770) by his brother, J. H. Schlegel (1724–1780), who had a considerable reputation as a writer on Danish history.
[1] J. E. Schlegel's Asthetische und dramaturgische Schriften have been edited by J. von Antoniewicz (1887), and a selection of his plays by F. Muncker in Bremer Beiträge, vol.