id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8620 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wikipedia .html text/html 13600 1789 72 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist.[3] His works include plays, poetry, literary, and aesthetic criticism, and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer named Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship one of the four greatest novels ever written,[6][c] while the American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson selected Goethe as one of six "representative men" in his work of the same name (along with Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Montaigne, Napoleon, and Shakespeare). The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were Götz von Berlichingen (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (1774), which gained him enormous fame as a writer in the Sturm und Drang period which marked the early phase of Romanticism. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8620.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8620.txt