Goethe
[ gur-tuh, German gœ-tuh ]
/ ˈgɜr tə, German ˈgœ tə /
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noun
Jo·hann Wolf·gang von [yoh-hahn -vawlf-gahng fuhn], /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈvɔlf gɑŋ fən/, 1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher.
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Goe·the·an, Goe·thi·an [gur-tee-uhn, gœ-], /ˈgɜr ti ən, ˈgœ-/, adjectiveWords nearby Goethe
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Goethe
/ (German ˈɡøːtə) /
noun
Johann Wolfgang von (joˈhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn). 1749–1832, German poet, novelist, and dramatist, who settled in Weimar in 1775. His early works of the Sturm und Drang period include the play Götz von Berlichingen (1773) and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). After a journey to Italy (1786–88) his writings, such as the epic play Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787) and the epic idyll Hermann und Dorothea (1797), showed the influence of classicism. Other works include the Wilhelm Meister novels (1796–1829) and his greatest masterpiece Faust (1808; 1832)
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