Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Author · 324 books

A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism. People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther . With this key figure of German literature, the movement of Weimar classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with Enlightenment, sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours, he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. He also long served as the privy councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar. Goethe took great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, and Arabia and originated the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"). Despite his major, virtually immeasurable influence on German philosophy especially on the generation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, he expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense. Influence spread across Europe, and for the next century, his works inspired much music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Many persons consider Goethe the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in western culture as well. Early in his career, however, he wondered about painting, perhaps his true vocation; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that people ultimately would remember his work in optics.

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Goethes Werke 44. Band

Die Geschwister. Die Laune des Verliebten

Correspondência - Livro de Bolso - 1ª Ed. 2010

Goethes Werke II. Abteilung, 11. Band

Faust, 1re [et] 2e parties, en 7 tableaux et 1 prologue;

Bd. 5 Goethe Sämtliche Werke – Lederausgabe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels. Vol. 1. From the German of Goethe.

Werke in vier Bänden

Goethes Werke Band VII Romane und Novellen Bd 2

Sämtliche Werke nach Epochen seines Schaffens. Münchner Ausgabe. 21 Bände in 33 Teilbänden (komplett) und Editionsbeilage.

Xenien

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

Lives of Caspar David Friedrich

The Flight to Italy

Faust (Erster Teil)

Las penas del joven Werther / The Sorrows of Young Werther

180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2)

Stella

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

Goethes Werke

Goethes Werke

فاوست

The Ultimate Christmas Collection

100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Goethe's Werke

100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

The Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Goethes Werke

Goethes Werke

Goethe

GENC WERTHER'IN ACILARI (CEP BOY)

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

Las afinidades electivas / Hermann y Dorotea

Ganz schön Goethe

Die Wahlverwandtschaften, Vol. 2

Goethe's Sämmtliche Werke, Vol. 19 of 40

Faust, der Tragödie Zweiter Teil, Vol. 1

Werke

50 Great Love Letters You Have To Read

100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1

Herbst

Prometheus & Ganymede

Sämtliche Werke

Goethes Werke

Goethes Briefe aus dem Jahr 1798

Goethes Werke

Werke

Werke

Renaissance Philosophy