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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749 - 1832

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Goethe wrote a wide range of works, including plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and joined a thriving intellectual and cultural environment under the patronage of Duchess Anna Amalia that formed the basis of Weimar Classicism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is the 5th most popular writer (down from 4th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Germany (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular German Writer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is most famous for his novel, Faust. The novel tells the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for power and knowledge.

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Among writers, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 5 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Shakespeare, and Dante Alighieri. After him are J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, and Voltaire.

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Among people born in 1749, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 1. After him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, Edward Jenner, Nicolas Appert, Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Domenico Cimarosa, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Yolande de Polastron, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Among people deceased in 1832, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 1. After him are Napoleon II, Évariste Galois, Jean-François Champollion, Walter Scott, Jeremy Bentham, Georges Cuvier, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Rasmus Rask, Muzio Clementi, Jean-Baptiste Say, and Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 9 out of 7,253. Before him are Pope Benedict XVI (1927), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Martin Luther (1483), Karl Marx (1818), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), and Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777). After him are Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), Charlemagne (748), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Albrecht Dürer (1471), and Johannes Kepler (1571).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ranks 1. After him are Anne Frank (1929), Hermann Hesse (1877), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770).

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