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Johann Wolfgang (Goethe) von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe formerly Goethe
Son of Johann Caspar Goethe and Katharina Elisabeth (Textor) Goethe
Brother of Cornelia Friederica Christiana (Goethe) Schlosser and Hermann Jakob Goethe
DescendantsFather of Julius August Walther von Goethe and Stillborn Infant von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gilt als einer der wichtigsten Dichter und Autoren aller Zeiten.[1] Er wird als Johann Wolfgang Goethe am 28. August 1749 in der Frankfurter Innenstadt in ein wohlhabendes Elternhaus geboren.[2][3] Sein Vater Johann Caspar Goethe ist Jurist, und sein Großvater mütterlicherseits J
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer and polymath (1749–1832)
Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Goethe (disambiguation) and Gote (disambiguation).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.[3][4] A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic,[3]his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and color.
Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and joined a thriving intellectual and cultural environment under the patronage of Duchess Anna Amalia th
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749–1832; Elevated to the Nobility as von Goethe in 1782)
BORN: 1749, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
DIED: 1832, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany
NATIONALITY: German
GENRE: Poetry, Fiction, drama, nonfiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Sorrows of ung Werther (1774)
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795)
Faust, Part One (1808)
Faust, Part Two (1832)
Overview
Though he lived in late eighteenth-century Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a true Renaissance man whose influence touched not only literature, poetry, and drama, but ranged into philosophy, theology, and science. Best known for his novels and poems, Goethe influenced a generation of philosophers and scientists and created some of Germany's best-known works of literature. History has ranked Goethe alongside William Shakespeare, Homer, and poet Alighieri: in the words of Napoléon I upon meeting the eminent poet, “There's a man!”
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
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