Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was the towering genius of German culture—poet, novelist, dramatist, scientist, statesman, and philosopher. His early novel The Sorrows of Young Werther made him the most famous writer in Europe at twenty-five, and he spent the remaining six decades of his life producing an astonishing body of work that encompassed virtually every field of human endeavor. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Faust.