In memory of
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, playwright and natural scientist
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 82 years
- Resting place
- Ducal Vault, Historical Cemetery, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany
Goethe wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" at twenty-four and became famous across Europe overnight. He spent the next sixty years in Weimar as minister, theatre director and scientist, and worked on "Faust" for most of his life, finishing it a year before he died.
He also studied plants, bones and colour, and was proudest of that work. He lies in the ducal vault beside his friend Schiller, in coffins placed side by side.
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