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By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29 Oct, 2019
Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building, and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried o
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Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building, and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany, and optics — and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His 1,413 maxims and reflections reveal not only some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature, and natural science but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. With freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man, they make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers. Less
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- 1999-03-01
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