Johann wolfgang von goethe biography summary example

German writer and polymath (1749–1832)

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Johann wolfgang von goethe biography summary example

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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.

His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.^[3][4] A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic,^[3]his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and color.

Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and joined a thriving intellectual and cultural environment under the patronage of Duchess Anna Amalia th