Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...volf gang f n go t , 1749 1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist...Germanys medieval past, and for the German folk song. Goethes lyric poems for...1796), became the prototype of the German Bildungsroman, or novel of character...