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    Walther Wolfgang Freiherr von Goethe (9 April 1818 – 15 April 1885) was a German composer and court chamberlain. He was one of the grandsons and last living...
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    Julius August Walther von Goethe (25 December 1789 – 27 October 1830) was the only one of the five children of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christiane...
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    Christiana Sophie Vulpius von Goethe (1 June 1765 – 6 June 1816) was the longtime lover and later wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Vulpius spent her childhood...
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in...
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    (née Goethe; 7 December 1750 – 8 June 1777) was the sister and only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who survived to adulthood. Cornelia Goethe, 15...
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    songs (Sprüche) in Middle High German. Walther has been described as the greatest German lyrical poet before Goethe; his hundred or so love-songs are widely...
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    children: Walther Wolfgang von Goethe (1818–1885), Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe (1820–1883) and Alma Sedina Henriette Cornelia von Goethe (1827–1844)...
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    Camille-Marie Stamaty, the violinist and composer Julius Eichberg, and Walther von Goethe (grandson of the poet). At the Leipzig Conservatoire Mendelssohn taught...
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    August 1885 as a result of the will of Goethe's last living heir, his grandson Walther von Goethe, who left the Goethe House to the state. After the Land...
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe August von Goethe, served in the court of Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Walther von Goethe, composer and court...
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  • Walther Gerlach (1 August 1889 – 10 August 1979) was a German physicist who co-discovered, through laboratory experiment, spin quantization in a magnetic...
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    youngest son of Friedrich Georg Goethe [de] (1657–1730) and Cornelia Walther (1668–1754). Between 1725 and 1730, Goethe attended the Casimirianum gynmnasium...
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    influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works that he had...
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    while Goethe bowed - an incident that became famous, though the "greatest likelihood is that Bettina made it up". In 1811, Bettina married Achim von Arnim...
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  • Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (5 March 1817, Marienberg – 6 February 1903, Dresden) was a jurist, literary historian, and Goethe researcher. The son...
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    Weimar Classicism (category Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder and finally Friedrich Schiller. The movement was eventually concentrated upon Goethe and Schiller, previously...
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    Family [de] (1803). In the autumn of 1802, Kleist returned to Germany; he visited Goethe, Schiller, and Wieland in Weimar, stayed for a while in Leipzig and Dresden...
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    Agnes von Lilien, has been debated. Critic Peter McIsaac has observed that, though they included women writers in Die Horen, Schiller and Goethe wrote...
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  • Gerrit Walther (born 15 February 1959) is a German historian. Born Kiel, Walther studied literature, history and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt...
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  • Sturm und Drang (category Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    Lenz, H. L. Wagner, and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller were notable proponents of the movement early in...
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  • Otto von Hennenberg-Botenlauben und sein Geschlecht (1180–1250), (1875) – Otto von Botenlauben and his lineage. Göthe als Historiker, 1876 – Goethe as an...
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    Hermann Walther von der Dunk (October 9, 1928 in Bonn – August 22, 2018 in Bilthoven) was a Dutch historian of German origin. Von der Dunk's family fled...
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  • Walther Kiaulehn (July 4, 1900 in Berlin – December 7, 1968 in Munich) was a German journalist and writer. After completing his studies as an electrician...
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Even after the stay, Louis was in correspondence with the Weimar court and Goethe, and also with Friedrich von Schiller. Louis...
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    Goethe's best-selling The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). The Sturm und Drang and Weimar Classicism movements were led by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
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    Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner (pronounced [ˈbɛʁtaː fɔn ˈzʊtnɐ]; née Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914)...
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  • (Konzertmitschnitt 1954) Ludwig van Beethoven: Sechs Lieder von Gellert, op. 48 und 7 Lieder von Goethe (1955) Robert Schumann: Liederkreis, op. 24 and Der arme...
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    grandmother was Sophie von La Roche. His sister was writer Bettina von Arnim, who, at a young age, lionised and corresponded with Goethe, and, in 1835, published...
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    Friederike Brion (category Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    poetry has not done that before, since Walther von der Vogelweide, while Heidenröslein most clearly shows how well Goethe knew to follow the character of the...
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    member of its presidium from 1950 to 1995, as well as president of the Goethe-Institut from 1977 to 1989. During World War II, Bismarck served as an officer...
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