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   Aug 24, 2024 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, and critic who was considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era. He is especially known for the drama Faust, considered by some to be Germany’s most significant contribution to world literature.

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   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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   Sep 26, 2024 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.

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   Mar 24, 2015 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Generally recognized as one of the greatest and most versatile European writers and thinkers of modern times, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born on Aug. 28, 1749, died on Mar. 22, 1832, profoundly influenced the growth of literary ROMANTICISM.

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   One of the preeminent figures in German literature, poet, playwright, and novelist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1749. The child of an imperial councilor, Goethe had a thoroughly classical education before entering Leipzig University in 1765.

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   Goethe was born into a middle-class family in Frankfurt am Main on 28 August 1749. In accordance with his father's wishes he studied law at Leipzig, where he came under the influence of the poet C. F. Gellert, who introduced him to such English writers as Sterne, Young, and Richardson.

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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 was Cornelia Goethe?

   • Cornelia Goethe was the daughter of Hermann Jacob Goethe and was the niece of Johann Caspar Goethe. In 1749, Cornelia Goethe married the merchant Ulrich Thomas Streng, when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born. Johann August Streng (1830–1897) was a mineralogist, chemist and scientist.

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   Where did Goethe grow up?

   • Goethe was born into a middle-class family in Frankfurt am Main on 28 August 1749. In accordance with his father's wishes he studied law at Leipzig, where he came under the influence of the poet C. F. Gellert, who introduced him to such English writers as Sterne, Young, and Richardson.

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   What did Goethe write?

   • Goethe had in almost-finished form a biblical play and a moralistic novel when he entered the university, but, after reading them to his friends, he ostentatiously burned them as unworthy of his now advanced taste and started to write erotic verse and a pastoral drama, Die Laune des Verliebten (1806; “The Lover’s Spleen”; Eng. trans.

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   • There, despite his obligations as a minister of the state, Goethe wrote a prodigious amount and in all fields: his scientific works alone run to some fourteen volumes. By his death, he was seen not just as the commanding literary figure of his age in Germany, but as the greatest writer the country, and German language, had ever produced.

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   • In 1749, Cornelia Goethe married the merchant Ulrich Thomas Streng, when Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born. Johann August Streng (1830–1897) was a mineralogist, chemist and scientist. Cornelia Goethe (1726–1799) — in 1749 she married the merchant Ulrich Thomas Streng (1712–1777), had seven children.

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   Feb 5, 2022 · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) was a German writer. He is best known for his verse drama, Faust, and his novel, Werther. Both have been set to music as operas.