Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, pantheism, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. 1
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
| Born | 28 August 1749 |
| Died | 22 March 1832 |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
| Born | 28 August 1749 |
| Died | 22 March 1832 |
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German Authors, Correspondence, Biography, Translations into English, Drama, Knowledge, Goethe, johann wolfgang von, 1749-1832, Art, Fiction, Description and travel, Travel, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Criticism and interpretation, German drama, German literature, Quotations, Facsimiles, German language, Science, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Poetry, German poetry, History and criticism, Literature, ColorPlaces
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Charlotte von Stein (1742-1827), Faust (-approximately 1540), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Johann Peter Eckermann (1792-1854), Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832), Faust (d. ca. 1540), Marianne von Willemer, Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), Johann Jakob von Willemer (1760-1838), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lamoraal Egmont Graaf van (1522-1568), Anna Swanwick (1813-1899), Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), Edgar Alfred Browning (1826-1911), F. A. Wolf (1759-1824), Götz von Berlichingen (1480-1562), Johann Christian Kestner (1741-1800), Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), Theodore Martin Sir (1816-1900), Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), Charlotte Buff Kestner (1753-1828), Christiane Vulpius (1765-1816), Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813)Time
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- OLID: OL13193A
- ISNI: 0000000120999104
- VIAF: 24602065
- Wikidata: Q5879
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q5879
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- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- Goethe
- J. Goethe
- J. W. von Goethe
- J. W. Goethe
- Гёте
- Иоганн Вольфганг фон Гёте
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