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# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

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## Publishing History

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## Related...

###### Subjects

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[Biography](/subjects/biography),
[History and criticism](/subjects/history_and_criticism),
[Knowledge](/subjects/knowledge),
[German Authors](/subjects/german_authors),
[Goethe, johann wolfgang von, 1749-1832](/subjects/goethe_johann_wolfgang_von_1749-1832),
[History](/subjects/history),
[German literature](/subjects/german_literature),
[Influence](/subjects/influence),
[Knowledge and learning](/subjects/knowledge_and_learning),
[Philosophy](/subjects/philosophy),
[Homes and haunts](/subjects/homes_and_haunts),
[In literature](/subjects/in_literature),
[Friends and associates](/subjects/friends_and_associates),
[Appreciation](/subjects/appreciation),
[Exhibitions](/subjects/exhibitions),
[Correspondence](/subjects/correspondence),
[Relations with women](/subjects/relations_with_women),
[Science](/subjects/science),
[Intellectual life](/subjects/intellectual_life)

###### Places

[Germany](/subjects/place:germany),
[Italy](/subjects/place:italy),
[Weimar (Thuringia)](/subjects/place:weimar_(thuringia)),
[Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)](/subjects/place:weimar_(thuringia_germany)),
[France](/subjects/place:france),
[Weimar](/subjects/place:weimar),
[Switzerland](/subjects/place:switzerland),
[Frankfurt am Main](/subjects/place:frankfurt_am_main),
[Europe](/subjects/place:europe),
[Germany) Weimar (Thuringia](/subjects/place:germany)_weimar_(thuringia),
[Czech Republic](/subjects/place:czech_republic),
[Frankfurt am Main (Germany)](/subjects/place:frankfurt_am_main_(germany)),
[Austria](/subjects/place:austria),
[Great Britain](/subjects/place:great_britain),
[Rome](/subjects/place:rome),
[United States](/subjects/place:united_states),
[Berlin](/subjects/place:berlin),
[England](/subjects/place:england),
[Weimar (Germany)](/subjects/place:weimar_(germany)),
[Bohemia](/subjects/place:bohemia)

###### People

[Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)](/subjects/person:friedrich_schiller_(1759-1805)),
[Faust (d. ca. 1540)](/subjects/person:faust_(d._ca._1540)),
[William Shakespeare (1564-1616)](/subjects/person:william_shakespeare_(1564-1616)),
[Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)](/subjects/person:heinrich_von_kleist_(1777-1811)),
[Thomas Mann (1875-1955)](/subjects/person:thomas_mann_(1875-1955)),
[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)](/subjects/person:gotthold_ephraim_lessing_(1729-1781)),
[Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)](/subjects/person:immanuel_kant_(1724-1804)),
[Charlotte von Stein (1742-1827)](/subjects/person:charlotte_von_stein_(1742-1827)),
[Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)](/subjects/person:friedrich_hölderlin_(1770-1843)),
[Faust (-approximately 1540)](/subjects/person:faust_(-approximately_1540))

###### Times

[18th century](/subjects/time:18th_century),
[19th century](/subjects/time:19th_century),
[20th century](/subjects/time:20th_century),
[Revolution, 1789-1799](/subjects/time:revolution_1789-1799),
[17th century](/subjects/time:17th_century),
[1740-1806](/subjects/time:1740-1806),
[18e siècle](/subjects/time:18e_siècle),
[21st century](/subjects/time:21st_century),
[Siege, 1793](/subjects/time:siege_1793),
[1789-1900](/subjects/time:1789-1900)

### Prolific Authors

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[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](/authors/OL13193A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
391 books

[Heinrich Düntzer](/authors/OL2325309A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
51 books

[Rudolf Steiner](/authors/OL47465A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
36 books

[Wilhelm Bode](/authors/OL1039028A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
32 books

[Thomas Mann](/authors/OL22973A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
31 books

[Friedrich Schiller](/authors/OL2414180A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
23 books

[Joachim Müller](/authors/OL141540A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
14 books

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](/authors/OL18405A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
13 books

[George Henry Lewes](/authors/OL414925A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
13 books

[Thomas Carlyle](/authors/OL107593A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
12 books

[Elizabeth M. Wilkinson](/authors/OL123506A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
12 books

[Staiger, Emil](/authors/OL150066A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
12 books

[Johann Peter Eckermann](/authors/OL1036165A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
11 books

[Ludwig Geiger](/authors/OL113377A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
11 books

[Catharina Elisabeth Goethe](/authors/OL1895951A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
11 books

[James Boyd](/authors/OL2030311A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
11 books

[Katharina Mommsen](/authors/OL325826A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
11 books

[Lothar Baus](/authors/OL510203A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
11 books

[Walter Dietze](/authors/OL1039357A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
10 books

[Benedetto Croce](/authors/OL114089A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
10 books

[Emil Ludwig](/authors/OL117443A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
10 books

[Karl Viëtor](/authors/OL128340A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
10 books

[Ernst Rudolf Beutler](/authors/OL151643A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
10 books

[Kuno Fischer](/authors/OL198926A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
10 books

[Albert Bielschowsky](/authors/OL2074388A "See more books by, and learn about, this author"),
10 books

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