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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(August 28, 1749 – March, 22 1832) was a German writer, scientist, theatre director, critic, a master of poetry, drama, and the novel.
His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.
Early Life and Education (1749–1771)
Goethe was born into a wealthy bourgeois family in Frankfurt, Germany. His father, Johann Kaspar Goethe, was a man of leisure who had inherited money from his own father, and his mother, Katharina Elisabeth, was the daughter of the most senior official in Frankfurt. The couple had seven children, although only Goethe and his sister Cornelia lived to adulthood.
His father and private tutors gave the young Goethe lessons in common subjects of their time, especially languages (Latin, Greek, Bibli
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director and critic hailed as one of Germany’s most important writers. Strictly from the “Sturm und Drang” (Storm and Stress) period nevertheless he was a major influence on the Romantic movement. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany on 28th August 1749 and died in Weimar, Germany on 22nd March 1832 aged 82.
Major Works
“The Sorrows of Young Werther” (1774)
“Faust” (Part I, 1808; Part II, (1832)
Biography Timeline
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on 28th August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main Germany. His father was a lawyer.
1765: He moves to Leipzig, Germany to study law even though he was more interested in literature.
1767: He publishes his first volume of poetry which is inspired by his love for Anna Katharina Schönkopf.
1768: He returns to Frankfurt. He takes up studying art, philosophy and science for his own interest.
1770: He returns to his law studies in Strasbourg. He publishes another v
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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 that had already included Abel Seyler's theatre company and Christoph Martin Wieland, and that formed
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