“It is not enough to have talent. More is needed to become intelligent: one must live amid significant circumstances and see the forces of one's time at work.”
About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28 August 1749–22 March 1832
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main and dead 22 March 1832 in Weimar, became during his own lifetime a European institution: poet, dramatist, novelist, critic, civil servant, theater director, scientific investigator, memoirist, and theorist of culture. To call him Germany’s greatest…