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Who is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

... (Show more) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (born August 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died March 22, 1832, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar), German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist, considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.

Who are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & Friedrich Schiller?

A statue of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (L) and German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller stands on June 4, 2009 in Weimar, Germany. The two influential German literary figures spent much of their lives in Weimar. Sean Gallup / Getty Images

What did Goethe do in the 1770s?

Throughout the 1770s, Goethe practiced a unique, progressive version of law across Germany, while maintaining a side career as an editor, playwright, and poet. He wrote his first widely-read novel, the loosely-autobiographical, joyfully-romantic tragedy, The Sorrows of Young Werther, in 1774, at the age of twenty-four.

Was Goethe a bourgeois poet?

His Faust, though eminently stageworthy when suitably edited, is also Europe’s greatest long poem since John Milton ’s Paradise Lost, if not since Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Goethe was one of the very few figures of Germany’s 18th-century literary renaissance who were, in the full sense of the term, bourgeois.