Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Died in 1832

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in 1749 in Frankfurt into a well-off middle-class family and studied law in Leipzig, then in Strasbourg, where Herder steered him towards Shakespeare, Ossian and folk poetry. A lawyer in Wetzlar and in Frankfurt, he was called to Weimar in 1775; as a member of the duke's council, he took charge there of the Ilmenau mines, roads and recruitment. His journey to Italy, from 1786 to 1788, turned him towards Antiquity, and his friendship with Schiller, from 1794, founded with him Weimar classicism. Ennobled in 1782, he died in Weimar in 1832.

In the catalogue 2

NovelThe Sorrows of Young WertherDie Leiden des jungen WerthersJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Literature
TheatreFaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Literature