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  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Georg Goethe was married twice, his first marriage was to Anna Elisabeth Lutz (1667–1700), the daughter of a burgher Sebastian Lutz (died 1701), with whom he had five children, including Hermann Jakob Goethe (1697–1761), after the death of his first wife in 1705 he married Cornelia Schellhorn, née Walther (1668–1754), widow of ...

  3. Amon Göth - Wikipedia

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    Amon Leopold Göth (German: ⓘ; alternative spelling Goeth; 11 December 1908 – 13 September 1946) was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal.He served as the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.

  4. The Sorrows of Young Werther - Wikipedia

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    For Goethe the Werther effect was a cathartic one, freeing himself from the despair in his life. [3] The book reputedly also led to some of the first known examples of copycat suicide. The men were often dressed in the same clothing "as Goethe's description of Werther and using similar pistols." Often the book was found at the scene of the ...

  5. Italian Journey - Wikipedia

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    Et in Arcadia ego [1]. Italian Journey initially takes the form of a diary, with events and descriptions written up apparently quite soon after they were experienced. The impression is in one sense true, since Goethe was clearly working from journals and letters he composed at the time – and by the end of the book he is openly distinguishing between his old correspondence and what he calls ...

  6. Deaths of philosophers - Wikipedia

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    1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel died of a gastrointestinal disease during a cholera outbreak in Berlin. 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe died of a heart attack in Weimar. [19] 1837 – Giacomo Leopardi died in Naples during a cholera epidemic, maybe by pulmonary edema. 1860 – Arthur Schopenhauer died of pulmonary-respiratory failure

  7. Goethe's Faust - Wikipedia

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    Kaufmann's version preserves Goethe's metres and rhyme schemes, but objected to translating all of Part Two into English, believing that "To let Goethe speak English is one thing; to transpose into English his attempt to imitate Greek poetry in German is another." [6] Phillip Wayne: Part One (1949) and Part Two (1959) for Penguin Books. [12]

  8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the major publications of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). 142 volumes comprise the entirety of his literary output, ranging from the poetical to the philosophical, including 50 volumes of correspondence.

  9. Erlkönig - Wikipedia

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    "Erlkönig" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking, a king of the fairies. It was originally written by Goethe as part of a 1782 Singspiel, Die Fischerin. "Erlkönig" has been called Goethe's "most famous ballad". [1]