His written account of these events can be found within his Complete Works. [citation needed] Along with Schiller, he was one of the leading figures of Weimar Classicism. But it was not to last long. Already at this time, Goethe wrote a good deal, but he threw away nearly all of these works, except for the comedy Die Mitschuldigen. einer Pockenerkrankung starb, noch
Goethe studied law at Leipzig University from 1765 to 1768. Goethe soll beide Temperamente seiner Eltern geerbt haben. In it, he contentiously characterized colour as arising from the dynamic interplay of light and darkness through the mediation of a turbid medium. Goethe's ideas on evolution would frame the question that Darwin and Wallace would approach within the scientific paradigm. Textor (1731 – 1808) Geschwister: Cornelia Friderike Christiana Ehefrau: Christiane Vulpius (1765 – 1816) Kinder: von fünf Kindern überlebte nur Karl August Goethe war der berühmteste und bekannteste deutsche Dichter der Welt. Followers of the twentieth century esotericist Rudolf Steiner built a theatre named the Goetheanum after him—where festival performances of Faust are still performed. [64][65][66] He was one of the central figures in a great flowering of a highly influential Neo-Spinozism[67][68][69] which occurred in German philosophy and literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Er musste allerdings diesem Beruf nicht nachgehen, da er sehr reich war und von den Gewinnen aus seinem Vermögen sehr gut leben konnte. [86] The medievalism of the Heidelberg Romantics was also repellent to Goethe's eighteenth-century ideal of a supra-national culture.[87]. The novel remains in print in dozens of languages and its influence is undeniable; its central hero, an obsessive figure driven to despair and destruction by his unrequited love for the young Lotte, has become a pervasive literary archetype. [42][43] As one of the many precursors in the history of evolutionary thought, Goethe wrote in Story of My Botanical Studies (1831): The ever-changing display of plant forms, which I have followed for so many years, awakens increasingly within me the notion: The plant forms which surround us were not all created at some given point in time and then locked into the given form, they have been given... a felicitous mobility and plasticity that allows them to grow and adapt themselves to many different conditions in many different places. If I tire of her as a girl, she'll play the boy for me as well". In any case this business of hatred between nations is a curious thing. Goethe was vehemently opposed to Newton's analytic treatment of colour, engaging instead in compiling a comprehensive rational description of a wide variety of colour phenomena. Thus...[not] the question, What are they for? Grundschule "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" Zwönitz. Wenn man heute die Menschen nach dem berühmtesten deutschen Dichter fragt, werden die meisten wohl seinen Namen nennen. If an ever busy imagination, of which that tale may bear witness, led me hither and thither, if the medley of fable and history, mythology and religion, threatened to bewilder me, I readily fled to those oriental regions, plunged into the first books of Moses, and there, amid the scattered shepherd tribes, found myself at once in the greatest solitude and the greatest society. "[79][80][81] He was critical of the radicalism of Bentham and expressed sympathy for the prudent liberalism of François Guizot. In 1791 he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar, and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose plays he premiered until Schiller's death in 1805.