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  1. Cornelia Schlosser. Cornelia around 1770. Drawing by Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern. Cornelia Friederica Christiana Schlosser (née Goethe; 7 December 1750 – 8 June 1777) was the sister and only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who survived to adulthood.

  2. Jul 2, 2016 · The subject of this blog is the German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Caspar Goethe (father) Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main in August 1749. His father was Johann Casper Goethe, whose father was the son of a wealthy tailor who later became an innkeeper. Goethe’s father inherited a fortune from his late father’s ...

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  4. Sep 24, 2019 · Cornelia Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s sister, was a gifted writer, we hear. But she died in childbed, 26 years old. Trapped in an unhappy marriage she despised. While her brother was free to roam the world, choose as partner whom he wanted and lived to rise to one of Germany’s most accredited poets.

  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present ...

  6. Our Namesake. Cornelia Goethe (1750-1777) The fate of Cornelia Goethe is exemplary for many sisters of famous men. She was born Cornelia Friederica Christiana Goethe just 15 months after her famous brother Johann Wolfgang as the second child of Katharina Elisabeth Textor and the Imperial Councillor Johann Caspar Goethe in Frankfurt am Main.

  7. Goethe's father, Johann Caspar Goethe (Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, 29 July 1710 – Frankfurt, 25 May 1782), lived with his family in a large house in Frankfurt, then an Imperial Free City of the Holy Roman Empire. Though he had studied law in Leipzig and had been appointed Imperial Councillor, he was not involved in the city's official affairs. 38-year-old Johann Caspar married Goethe's mother ...

  8. Goethe’s father was an inordinately severe taskmaster, who punctiliously saw to it that Goethe junior and his sister Cornolia conscientiously practiced day in and day out all the subjects they ...