Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach theatre manager, botanist and politician.
Overview
The authority record associates the name with Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism and Age of Enlightenment. Work is classified under lyric poetry, drama and tragedy. Places of work recorded in the authority include Weimar. Works named in the authority record include Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Elective Affinities. Catalogue entries for prints and multiples state process, state, edition and watermark or paper. VALÉORINE records this subject so that lots referring to it can be described consistently.
In detail
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
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