Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in Frankfurt in 1749 into a prosperous family and was educated at home in languages, drawing and music before studying law at Leipzig and Strasbourg. His novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), told in letters by a young man who suffers from unhappy love, made him famous across Europe. In 1775 he was invited to the small duchy of Weimar by its young duke, Karl August, and he stayed for the rest of his life, serving as a minister responsible for matters such as mines, roads and finances and directing the court theater. A journey to Italy in 1786–1788 deeply influenced his work. His close friendship with the poet Friedrich Schiller produced a great period of German literature. Goethe wrote poems, plays, the novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, and scientific studies of plants, the bones of the skull, and color. His greatest work, the verse drama Faust, about a scholar who makes a bargain with the devil Mephistopheles, occupied him for most of his life; Part One appeared in 1808. He died in Weimar in 1832.

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Faith: A freethinker who believed one could be inwardly Christian without following any church; he showed interest in other religions, including Islam. Source: Wikipedia