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Christiane Vulpius. Christiane Vulpius, drawn by Goethe, c. 1788 –1789. Currently displayed at Goethe House, in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt am Main. Johanna Christiana Sophie Vulpius von Goethe (1 June 1765 – 6 June 1816) was the longtime lover and later wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
Last years (1817–32) of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The year 1817 saw the marriage of Goethe’s son, as well as Goethe’s resignation from the post of director of the Weimar theatre and his final surrender of the Frankfurt citizenship that he still nominally retained. He had to make a new will and could see his 70th birthday approaching.
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 ...
Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy ( German: Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil in fünf Akten.) is the second part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was published in 1832, the year of Goethe's death. Only part of Faust I is directly related to the legend of Johann Faust, which dates to at latest the beginning of the ...
Feb 5, 2013 · The Sublime,“Über den Granit,” and the Prehistory of Goethe's Science; The Building in Bildung: Goethe, Palladio, and the Architectural Media; Virgilian Retrospection in Goethe's Alexis und Dora; Typologies of Repetition, Reflection, and Recurrence: Interpreting the Novella in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften; Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did?
Goethe was born August 28, 1749, in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, to a wealthy, middle-class family. He was educated at home by his father and tutors until 1765, when he was sent to Leipzig to study law, his father's profession. Goethe had shown his literary talent even as a child. While at Leipzig he began to write brilliant lyric poetry and ...
Jul 2, 2016 · Goethe’s mother was Catharina Elisabeth Goethe (née Textor), the daughter of Johann Wolfgang Textor, a prominent citizen of Frankfurt. She was twenty-one years younger than her husband whom she married in August 1748. Goethe was the eldest of seven children.
