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    Julius August Walther von Goethe (25 December 1789 – 27 October 1830) was the only one of the five children of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christiane...
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential...
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    last living descendant of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe was the eldest child of August and Ottilie von Goethe. He was always frail when he grew up and...
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    Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Nearly all of Part...
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  • award for achievement "worthy of honour in memory of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" made by the city of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was usually an annual...
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    Christiana Sophie Vulpius von Goethe (1 June 1765 – 6 June 1816) was the longtime lover and later wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Vulpius spent her childhood...
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    Frankfurt, the poet, philosopher and writer/dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The university currently has around 45,000 students, distributed across...
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    poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is also the place where Goethe wrote his famous works Götz von Berlichingen, The Sorrows of Young Werther...
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    Baroness Ottilie Wilhelmine Ernestine Henriette von Goethe (born Freiin von Pogwisch; 31 October 1796, Danzig – 26 October 1872, Weimar) was a German...
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    destroyed in a fire in September of the same year. In June 1819, August von Goethe reported: "Friendly huts and good service with coffee, double beer...
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  • Goethe (also Göthe and Gœthe) is a German surname. It is best known for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). It belongs to the group of surnames derived...
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    years. It is named after German poet and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Goethe-Institut e.V. is autonomous and politically independent. Partners...
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    His son, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is considered one of the greatest German poets and authors of all time. Johann Caspar Goethe was born in Frankfurt in...
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    Elisabeth Goethe, born Catharina Elisabeth Textor, (19 February 1731 – 13 September 1808) was the mother of German playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
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    1899 in Třebívlice) was a friend and the last love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. She was born in Leipzig in Saxony, the daughter of the ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
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    The Goethe Medal, also known as the Goethe-Medaille, is a yearly prize given by the Goethe-Institut honoring non-Germans "who have performed outstanding...
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    (née Goethe; 7 December 1750 – 8 June 1777) was the sister and only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who survived to adulthood. Cornelia Goethe, 15...
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    Friedrich August von Hayek CH FBA (/ˈhaɪək/ HY-ək, German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔaʊɡʊst fɔn ˈhaɪɛk] ; 8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), often referred to by his initials...
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    The Goethe Monument (or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Monument) is a bronze statue by Herman Hahn in Chicago's Lincoln Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois...
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    Reiner (2010). Hans Kammler – Manager des Todes. Frankfurt am Main: August von Goethe Literaturverlag. ISBN 978-3-8372-0817-7. Tooze, Adam (2007). The Wages...
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    von Goethe. Perhaps the most famous one is the oak tree near Weimar, Germany, on the Ettersberg, at the foot of which was the castle of Charlotte von...
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    The original Goethe–Schiller Monument (German: Goethe-Schiller-Denkmal) is in Weimar, Germany. It incorporates Ernst Rietschel's 1857 bronze double statue...
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    "Vulpius, Christian August". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 221. "Goethe-Meyer und die Lachse von Bremen". Weser...
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    Wanderer's Nightsong (category Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Written in 1776 ("Der du von dem Himmel bist") and in 1780 ("Über allen Gipfeln"), they are among Goethe's most famous works...
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    Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (German: [ˈhuːɡo fɔn ˈhoːfmanstaːl]; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist...
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  • fictionalized version of the early years of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the events forming the basis of his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther...
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    writer and critic Johann Karl August Musäus was among his teachers. In 1776 the young Kotzebue acted alongside Goethe in the latter's play Die Geschwister...
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    in seinem Verhältnis zu Goethe (1903) X. Mayne [i.e. E. I. Prime Stevenson], 'The Life and Diary of a Uranian Poet August von Platen 1796–1835', in The...
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    in her work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. She was born in Erlangen, daughter of Gottfried Friedrich Leopold Graf von und zu Egloffstein and his wife...
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    while Goethe bowed - an incident that became famous, though the "greatest likelihood is that Bettina made it up". In 1811, Bettina married Achim von Arnim...
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