Foreign thinker
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLiterature, philosophy, and humanitiesGerman1749–1832
“Human beings do not live only to understand; they live to act and create.”
Life and Thought
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a prominent German poet, writer, playwright, and thinker, and one of the greatest figures in world literature. Through works such as *The Sorrows of Young Werther* and *Faust*, he played an important role in Romanticism and the transformation of European literature, while also developing influential ideas in aesthetics, the philosophy of nature, and cultural thought.
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