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1749–1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 德国
18th–19th-century German poet, novelist, playwright, and scientist, the central figure of German literature (1749–1832).
Born in Frankfurt, his *The Sorrows of Young Werther* (1774) caused a sensation across Europe, and in 1775 he went to the Weimar court, where he remained for life; his representative works are *Faust* (Part One 1808, Part Two 1832), the *Wilhelm Meister* series, lyric poetry, and treatises on botany and colour theory; his friendship with Schiller was the peak of German classical literature.
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Birthplace Frankfurt (Goethe House); place of activity and burial Weimar (buried in the Ducal Vault, Weimar, next to Schiller).
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Cultural significance
The benchmark for the word "classical" in German-language literature; *Faust* is regarded as one of Europe's greatest long poems after Dante's *Divine Comedy* and Milton's *Paradise Lost*.