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   5 days ago · Commissioner of the War, Mines and Highways Commissions of Saxe-Weimar (from 1779) 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 ...

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   Oct 6, 2024 · Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more) “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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   Sep 20, 2024 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — ‘No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not k...

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   Oct 8, 2024 · Faust, two-part dramatic work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Part I was published in 1808 and Part II in 1832, after the author’s death. The supreme work of Goethe’s later years, Faust is sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature. Learn more about the play.

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   Sep 18, 2024 · “And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther. Read more quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Share this quote: Like Quote.

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   Oct 5, 2024 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) is celebrated as one of the greatest writers in the German language and a towering figure in Western intellectual history. A polymath, Goethe’s contributions extended far beyond poetry and drama, encompassing fields like science, philosophy, and politics.

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   Who was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

   • 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.

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   Who wrote Goethe's poems?

   • 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. Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt (Großer Hirschgraben)

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   What did Einstein say about Goethe?

   • In a letter written to Leopold Casper in 1932, Einstein wrote that he admired Goethe as 'a poet without peer, and as one of the smartest and wisest men of all time'. He goes on to say, 'even his scholarly ideas deserve to be held in high esteem, and his faults are those of any great man'.

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   How did Goethe become famous?

   • 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.

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   When did Goethe write a Faust?

   • Goethe's original draft of a Faust play, which probably dates from 1773 to 1774, and is now known as the Urfaust, was also published after his death. The first operatic version of Goethe's Faust, by Louis Spohr, appeared in 1814.

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   What did Matthew Arnold say about Goethe?

   • Matthew Arnold found in Goethe the "Physician of the Iron Age" and "the clearest, the largest, the most helpful thinker of modern times" with a "large, liberal view of life".

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9. theconversation.com › the-sorrows-of-young-wertherThe Sorrows of Young Werther at 250: Goethe’s dangerous ...

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   Sep 25, 2024 · A novel that invites adoration and controversy in equal measure, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther has endured in the popular imagination.