Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Auto-Biography of Goethe

Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 536 Seiten

ISBN 1108057462

EAN 9781108057462

Veröffentlicht Februar 2013

Verlag/Hersteller Cambridge University Press

Übersetzer Übersetzt von John Oxenford

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Beschreibung

Goethe (1749-1832) ranked among the greatest literary figures of his day. This two-volume translation of his autobiography first appeared in 1848-9.

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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) was a German poet, writer, scientist, statesman, and one of the greatest German literary figures. Goethe, the eldest of seven children born in a wealthy Frankfurt family, studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Strasbourg. He wrote novels and poetry, dramas, treatises on botany and literary criticism, among which his successful novels The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) and Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795). Early in his life, Goethe was a member of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, emphasizing free expression of emotions over the restraints of rationalism. Later, Goethe, together with Friedrich Schiller, initiated the Weimar Classicism, a cultural movement based on a synthesis of Romanticism, Classicism and the Enlightenment.