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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (–; Elevated to the Nobility as von Goethe in )
BORN: , Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
DIED: , Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany
NATIONALITY: German
GENRE: Poetry, Fiction, drama, nonfiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Sorrows of Young Werther ()
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship ()
Faust, Part One ()
Faust, Part Two ()
Overview
Though he lived in late eighteenth-century Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a true Renaissance man whose influence touched not only literature, poetry, and drama, but ranged into philosophy, theology, and science. Best known for his novels and poems, Goethe influenced a generation of philosophers and scientists and created some of Germany's best-known works of literature. History has ranked Goethe alongside William Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante Alighieri: in the words of Napoléon I upon meeting the eminent poet, “There's a man!”
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt– am–Main in the state of Hessia in Germany on August 28, The eldest son of an imperial counselor and the mayor's daughter, Goethe balanced the personalities of
his reserved, stern father, Johann Kaspar Goethe, and his impulsive, imaginative mother, Katharina Elisabeth Textor Goethe.
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GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG von
GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG von (), and the influence upon him of the Persian poet Ḥāfeẓ (q.v.; ca. C.E.). Goethe, the most renowned poet of German literature, was already from his youth deeply interested in the East and in Islam. He planned to write a drama about Moḥammad, as witnessed by the poem Mahomets-Gesang (Mommsen, , p. ; Bürgel, p. 8). But it was not until later, during his period of romanticism, that the poet devoted his attention to the literature and history of Persia. Goethe considered literature (language) and religion as the best aids to discovering other cultures. In addition to Persian literature, he also learned the Arabic language and script and studied the teachings of Zoroaster as well as those of Islam. Goethe’s productive preoccupation with Persia goes back to the years to ; and it was, above all, his acquaintance with Ḥāfeẓ which increasingly awakened his interest in Persian literature.
Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan marks a literary encounter between German and Persian literature which began in In the spring of that year, Goethe received a German translation of Ḥāfeẓ’s divān in two volumes from the publisher Cotta of Stuttgart (Bohnenkamp and Bosse, p. ). The translator was the Austrian Orie