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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

8 dated entries naming Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, drawn from 8 separate years between 1749 CE and 1832 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1749August 28 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and politician (d. 1832)source
  • 1770c. September – Johann Gottfried Herder meets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Strasbourg.source
  • 1774September 29 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's semi-autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (written January–March) is published anonymously in Leipzig, Germany; it is influential in the Sturm und Drang movement and Romanticism.source

19th century

  • 1804March 17 – Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell is first performed at Weimar, under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.source
  • 1810May 16 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours).source
  • 1827January 27 – Author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe first elaborates on his vision of Weltliteratur (world literature), in a letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, declaring his belief that "poetry is the universal possession of mankind", and that "the epoch of world literature is at hand, and each must work to hasten its coming."source
  • 1829January 19 – August Klingemann's adaptation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust premieres in Braunschweig.source
  • 1832March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)source

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