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    • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (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. A poet, playwright, novelist, s… See more

    BornJohann Wolfgang Goethe · 28 August 1749 · Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
    Died22 March 1832 (aged 82) · Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
    EducationLeipzig University · University of Strasbourg
    SpouseChristiane Vulpius · (m. 1806; died 1816)
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    The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were Götz von Berlichingen (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: … See more

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    As to what I have done as a poet,... I take no pride in it... But that in my century I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colours—of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here I have a consciousn… See more

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