Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

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Biography

Nationality

Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Ethnicity

Germans

Gender

male

Date of birth

August 28, 1749

Occupation

theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, travel writer, physicist, literary scholar, novelist, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, writer, visual artist, art historian, exlibrist, draftsperson, watercolorist, print collector, art collector, printmaker

Place of birth

Frankfurt

Country of birth

Germany

Date of death

March 22, 1832 (82 years)