Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , also US: ; German: .}} (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, 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. Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. 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). He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the ''Sturm und Drang'' literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe became a member of the Duke's privy council (1776–1785), sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace.}}
Goethe's first major scientific work, the ''Metamorphosis of Plants'', was published after he returned from a 1788 tour of Italy. In 1791 he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar, and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose plays he premiered until Schiller's death in 1805. During this period Goethe published his second novel, ''Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship''; the verse epic ''Hermann and Dorothea'', and, in 1808, the first part of his most celebrated drama, ''Faust''. His conversations and various shared undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively termed Weimar Classicism.
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer named ''Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'' one of the four greatest novels ever written,}} while the American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson selected Goethe as one of six "representative men" in his work of the same name (along with Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Montaigne, Napoleon, and Shakespeare). Goethe's comments and observations form the basis of several biographical works, notably Johann Peter Eckermann's ''Conversations with Goethe'' (1836). His poems were set to music by many composers including Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler. Provided by Wikipedia
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Goethe's literary essays : a selection in English / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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The sorrows of Werter A German story. : [Two lines of quotations] : Vol. I[-II] by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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The sorrows of Werter an affecting story; / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Goethes Götz von Berlichingen in Jagsthausen / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Goethe's Werke. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Goethe's Torquato Tasso / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Italian journey, 1786-1788 / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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The sorrows of young Werther : and selected writings / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Die Liebesgedichte des West-östlichen Divans : in zeitlicher Folge mit Einführung und entstehungsgeschichtlichem Kommentar / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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The auto-biography of Goethe : truth and poetry: from my own life / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Über allen Gipfeln : Goethes Gedichte im Rahmen seines Lebens / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Faust, a tragedy. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Goethe's poems, selected and annotated, with a study of the development of Goethe's art and view of life in his lyrical poetry / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen : mit Anmerkungen und Einleitung / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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The story of Reynard the Fox. / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Götz von Berlichingen : a play / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Goethe's world view : presented in his reflections and maxims / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Selected letters. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Jugendwerke / by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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