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1. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

2. EARLY YEARS
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was born in Germany August 28, 1749, he
died March 22, 1832, he was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist,
statesman, theather director, critic, and amateur artist, considered the greatest
German literary figure of the modern era.
 His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and
styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography;
 Goethe was the eldest of seven children

3.  During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's
council, sat on the war and highway commissions and implemented a series of
administrative reforms at the University of Jena.
 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

4.  He studied law in Leipzig, and later in Strasburg
 The best moment of his life may well have been the moment he met William
Shakespeare`s work and heard folk poetry, through the guidance of Johann
Gottfried Herder

5.  Goethe fell in love with Anna Katharina Schönkopf and wrote cheerful verses
about her in the Rococo genre.

6.  In October 1770, on a trip to the village Sessenheim, Goethe fell in love with
Friederike Brion, but, after ten months, terminated the relationship. Several of his
poems, like Willkommen und Abschied, Sesenheimer Lieder and Heideröslein,
originate from this time.

7.  In 1776, Goethe formed a close relationship to Charlotte von Stein, an older, married
woman. The intimate bond with Frau von Stein lasted for ten years, after which
Goethe abruptly left for Italy without giving his companion any notice. She was
emotionally distraught at the time.

8.  Meanwhile he had a mistress Christiane with whom he had several children. He
lived with her for 18 years until they eventually married. Christiane von Goethe
died in 1816.

9. The most important of Goethe's works
 Goetz von Berlichingen(1773)
 The Sorrows of Young Werther(called Die Leiden des jungen Werthers in
German) (1774)
 Sturm und Drang
 Fausto

10. The Lovely Night
Now I leave this little hut,
Where my beloved lives,
Walking now with veiled steps
Through the shadowy leaves.
Luna shines through bush and oak,
Zephyr proclaims her path,
And the birch trees bowing low
Shed incense on her track.
How beautiful the coolness
Of this lovely summer night!
How the soul fills with happiness
In this true place of quiet!
I can scarcely grasp the bliss!
Yet, Heaven, I would shun
A thousand nights like this,
If my darling granted one.