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Feb 5, 2013 · W hy did goethe marry Christiane Vulpius, his companion of eighteen years, on 19 October 1806, five days after Napoleon's victory over Prussia at the battle of Jena-Auerstedt? The act perplexed Weimar gossips at the time, angering some, and Goethe's motives for suddenly marrying then have been much discussed since.
Schwartz, Peter J.. "Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did?". Goethe Yearbook 15, edited by Simon Richter, Daniel Purdy, Albert Earle Gurganus, Borge Kristiansen, Christoph Schweitzer, Daniel Purdy, Ehrhard Bahr, Elizabeth Powers, Jocelyn Holland, Peter J. Schwartz, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Robert Germany and Yasser Derwiche Djazaerly, Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, 2008, pp. 115-130.
Jan 24, 2016 · He did eventually marry her, but not until almost twenty years later, in 1806, by which time she had already borne him a son. ... Old age did not put an end to Goethe’s career as a lover: in ...
Why did goethe marry Christiane Vulpius, his companion of eighteen years, on 19 October 1806, five days after Napoleon's victory over Prussia at the battle of Jena-Auerstedt? The
May 23, 2018 · Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. ( b. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 28 August 1749; d. Weimar, Germany, 22 March 1832) zoology, botany, geology, optics. Born of middle-class parents—his father, Johann Kaspar Goethe, was a lawyer—Goethe obtained a degree in law at Strasbourg in 1771. He was summoned in 1775, on the basis of his literary fame, to ...
Napoleonic period (1805–16) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe responded to the death of Schiller by winding up the projects that had dominated his middle years. In 1805 he started preparing a new collected edition of his literary works with the publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta (see Cotta family), who also began the separate printing of his largest work, Zur Farbenlehre (“On the Theory ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Faust, two-part dramatic work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Part I was published in 1808 and Part II in 1832, after the author’s death. The supreme work of Goethe’s later years, Faust is sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature. Part I sets out the magician Faust ’s despair, his pact with Mephistopheles ...
