Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Playwright, Poet, and Author
Germany warns US on market bubbles...rather than be paid out as dividends or excessive compensation. " The ECB president quoted a warning by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt's most famous son, on the need for self-restraint: "If I wanted to lavishly let myself go, I... In this article: Wolfgang Schauble, Jean-Claude Trichet, Frankfurt, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, US, and US Federal Reserve |
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AP Online | 6 days ago
Cage uncuffs inner bad cop for 'Bad Lieutenant'
...toward financial ruin - has a busy release schedule to help restore his personal fortune. Adapted from a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" stars Cage as a 1,500-year-old disciple of the wizard Merlin who takes...
In this article: Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog, New Orleans, Francis Ford Coppola, National Treasure, Academy Award, Toronto International Film Festival, and Harvey Keitel
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The Stranger - Slog | November 16, 2009
Reading Tonight: Fighting Racists, and a Fresh Look at Goethe
Gordon L. Miller is at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. He's showing his photographs for a new translations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Metamorphosis of Plants. Miller's reading looks good, but the reading of the night tonight...
In this article: Democracy, White supremacy, Hunters in the Snow, and Tobias Wolff
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The Seattle Times | November 10, 2009
Local books: Illustrated Goethe, the Battle of Seattle and Wheedle on the Needle
...Needle A selection of new titles by Washington authors, or of local interest. "The Metamorphosis of Plants" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Douglas Miller, with introduction and photography by Gordon L. Miller (MIT Press,...
In this article: Battle of Seattle, Seattle, Pacific, Museum of History & Industry, and Iraq War
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True/Slant | November 07, 2009
On James Guida's Marbles and the Aphorism
...T.H. Huxley, an English biologist, published translations of 28 aphorisms by the German poet and intellectual, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Huxley, a staunch advocate of the emerging theory of evolution and a supporter of Darwin's work, was...
In this article: Nature, T.H. Huxley, Swoops, Ether, and England
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Bleacher Report | November 07, 2009
Unrealized Potential: Florida Marlins Trade Jeremy Hermida to Boston
...injuries than it was about ERA and strikeouts. Once he left the Marlins, he became a consistent superstar pitcher. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once wrote, "When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if...
In this article: Jeremy Hermida, Florida Marlins, Carolina Mudcats, Josh Beckett, Boston, Philadelphia Phillies, Florida, Al Reyes, and Land Shark Stadium
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (IPA: /ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə/, in English generally pronounced: /ˈgɝːtə/;; 28 August 1749 22 March 1832) was a German writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters… and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism and science. Goethe's 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.
Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides 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 served at length as the Privy Councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar.
Goethe is the originator of the concept of Weltliteratur ("world literature"), having taken great interest in the literatures of England, France, Italy, classical Greece, Persia, Arabic literature, amongst others. His influence on German philosophy is virtually immeasurable, having major effect especially on the generation of Hegel and Schelling, although Goethe himself expressly and decidedly refrained from practicing philosophy in the rarefied sense.
- Birth Date:
- August 28, 1749
- Birthplace:
- Free Imperial City of Frankfurt or Frankfurt on Main, Holy Roman Empire
- Death Date:
- March 22, 1832
- Place of Death:
- Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Nationality:
- German
- Spouse:
- Christiane Vulpius
- Occupation:
- Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat
- Known for:
- e.g. Faust; The Sorrows of Young Werther; Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; Elective Affinities
- Influenced By:
- Gellert, Hafez, Herder, Homer, Ossian, Klopstock, Lessing, Rousseau, Shakespeare, Schelling, Schiller, Spinoza, Winckelmann
- Influenced:
- Iqbal, Lamarck, Darwin, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Carlyle, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Nikola Tesla, Turgenev, Steiner, Mann, Hesse, André Gide, Cassirer, Jung, Spengler, Wittgenstein, Grass, Ikeda
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