Holistic science sometimes asks different questions than a strictly analytic science — as is exemplified by Goethe in the following passage:

He asks one of the poets, named Goethe by the author, to inscribe on one of his books and give the book to Kristyna as a gift.

One attentive listener (" Goethe " in the book, " Dante " in the film ) asks him privately whether he truly believes in the possibility of such a world.

The birth of the Bildungsroman is normally dated to the publication Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in 1795 – 96.

The second, the Greek theatre, which Böttiger had been interested in since his time as a drama critic in Weimar ; his unfavorable review of August Wilhelm Schlegel's Ion was withdrawn at the request of Goethe.

* March 17 – First performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, at Weimar under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Bancroft capped off his education with a European tour, in the course of which he sought out almost every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and Alessandro Manzoni.

Lucca was well received, but the German critics were unhappy with the opera's alterations to the Goethe original, so Thomas composed a shorter finale with a tragic ending, in which Mignon falls dead in the arms of Wilhelm.

** Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For example, in 1785, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, a medical practitioner living in Weimar – where he became part of Goethe ’ s intellectual circle – concerns himself with Mesmer und sein Mesmerismus ; a quarter of a century later, while he is the medical head at Berlin ’ s Charité and chief physician of Frederick William III, Hufeland writes about the existence of a Sympathie which, in nature, has " the effect of connecting everything together, in so doing going on to also explain the most unique relationship which holds together magnetizing therapist and magnetized patient.

The second being Carlyle's work translating Goethe, particularly Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Faust, both of which are quoted and explicitly referred to, especially in Teufelsdröckh's crisis being named " The Sorrows of Young Teufelsdröckh ".

Beginning in 1830 Weidmann's Publishing House in Leipzig repeatedly approached Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm with a proposal for a large new dictionary, spanning German vocabulary from Martin Luther to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship () is the second novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1795-96.

R. D. Miller, discussing " heritage " in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, concluded that it was in this idea that Goethe had expressed his mature classical ideal of humanity according to which the individual contains within himself and embodies the general, such that a dedication to the life of others would not necessarily, from that point of view, imply renunciation of his own being.

Biographies of Goethe, Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm Hohenzollern are available in English from G. P. Putnam's Sons ( New York and London ).

During the course of its history, the academy has had numerous famous members including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Grimm brothers, Theodor Mommsen, Anthimos Gazis, Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, Kurt Sethe, Max Planck, Otto Hahn, Albert Einstein, Max Weber, Werner Heisenberg and Adolf Butenandt.

The poet intended, by means of this work, to infuse higher ideas into the common lives of men, by giving them a nobler human culture, and “ to reunite the divided political world under the banner of truth and beauty .” The Horen brought Goethe and Schiller into intimate relations with each other and with Cotta ; and Goethe, while regretting that he had already promised Wilhelm Meister to another publisher, contributed the Unterhaltung deutscher Ausgewanderten, the Roman Elegies and a paper on Literary Sansculottism.

* Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1787, oil on canvas, 164 x 206 cm

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Ehret was a proponent of the emerging back-to-nature renaissance in Germany and Switzerland during the latter part of the 19th century, which was inspired by writers such as Meister Eckhart, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Nietzche, Goethe, Herman Hesse, Ernst Haeckel and Eduard Baltzer as well as the healing traditions of Roman and Greek philosophers such as Paracelsus, Empedocles, Seneca, Plutarch, Porphyry, Galen, Hippocrates, Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle.

File: Goethecut. png | By Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Detail From Goethe in the Roman Campagna, 1786 / 1787

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File: Goethe in der Campagna ( Ruinen ). jpg | By Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

" Related to this theme is the question whether Antigone's will to bury her brother is based on rational thought or instinct, a debate whose contributors include greats like Goethe.

But on the question of whether he would translate Hebel's works, Goethe said: " Such a great poet should be only read in the original!

Her return in some ways is due to her need to settle the " wrongs " done to her by Goethe in his creation of Werther ; one of the underlying motifs in the story is the question of what sacrifices both a " genius " and the people around him / her must make to promote his / her creations, and whether or not Goethe ( as the resident genius of Weimar ) is too demanding of his supporters.

On 16 August 1946 Mann, living in Pacific Palisades, California, received a letter from the British ambassador in Washington inquiring “ whether you put the words into Goethe ’ s mouth or whether they are an actual quotation from the latter ’ s works.

Hermann Hesse once commented, " As far as I know, in no literary history do we yet read that Hebel was the greatest German novelist, as great as Keller and more confident and purer and mightier in effect than Goethe.

: We have already referred to the two drawbacks, of which we have to complain in particular: the one is the virtual encouragement of regicide, which we trust to see removed from the next edition, being as unnatural as it is immoral: the other is a careless audacity in treating of licentiousness, which in our eyes is highly reprehensible, though it may, no doubt, have been exhibited with a moral intention, and though Mr. Browning may plead the authority of Shakspeare, Goethe, and other great men, in his favour.

For Goethe, light is " the simplest most undivided most homogenous being that we know.

:" those other words of Goethe be translated into fact, not only, as we must hope, of the German people but of the whole community of man:

" The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: " With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly.

Upon return from a trip to Germany 1934, which at the time was sterilizing over 5, 000 citizens per month, Goethe reportedly told a fellow eugenicist, " You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program.

Fascinated with Miranda's account of his exploits in the American Revolutionary War and his travels throughout the Americas and Europe, Goethe told him that, " Your destiny is to create in your land a place where primary colours are not distorted .” He proceeded to clarify what he meant:

Fascinated with Miranda's account of his exploits in the United States Revolutionary War and his travels throughout the Americas and Europe, Goethe told him that, " Your destiny is to create in your land a place where primary colors are not distorted .” He proceeded to clarify what he meant by this:

Charles M. Goethe ( 1875 – 1966 ) was an American eugenicist, entrepreneur, land developer, philanthropist, conservationist, founder of the Eugenics Society of Northern California, and a native and lifelong resident of Sacramento, California.

Founded in 1945 on what used to be a pear orchard and hop ranch, the arboretum was originally named the Charles M. Goethe Arboretum in honor of Charles Goethe ( 1875 – 1966, pronounced " geh-teh "), a land developer, philanthropist, conservationist, eugenicist and one of the university's founding fathers, " the name was changed without fanfare to University Arboretum in 2005 " because of renewed attention to Goethe's virulently racist views, praise of Nazi Germany, and advocacy for eugenics.

That the people of the land of Goethe and Schiller would choose as their guide in this spiritual exploration a clinically depressed loaf of bread, is, perhaps, just another improbable element of the German Zeitgeist ".

He developed this conception further in several books, The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World-Conception ( 1886 ) and Goethe's Conception of the World ( 1897 ), particularly emphasizing the transformation in Goethe's approach from the physical sciences, where experiment played the primary role, to plant biology, where imagination was required to find the biological archetypes ( Urpflanze ), and postulated that Goethe had sought but been unable to fully find the further transformation in scientific thinking necessary to properly interpret and understand the animal kingdom.

Here he wrote the first of his great historical tragedies, Hakon Jarl, which he sent off to Copenhagen, and then proceeded for the winter months to Berlin, where he associated with Humboldt, Fichte, and the leading men of the day, and met Goethe for the first time.

In the spring of 1806 he went on to Weimar, where he spent several months in daily intercourse with Goethe.

He travelled for some time on the continent, visiting Paris and Weimar, where he met Goethe.

The reason she chose that city, then the centre of German literary life, as her new residence — a city where she had no relatives or close acquaintances — is rumoured to have been the desire of meeting Goethe.

It is an hour's stroll from Weimar, where walked Goethe, Herder, Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Martin Wieland, the inimitable Kotzebue and others.

Goethe also used Puck in the first half of Faust, in a scene entitled " A Walpurgis Night Dream ", where he played off of the spirit Ariel from The Tempest.

Chevreul worked as the director of the dye works at Les Gobelins tapestry works in Paris, where he noticed that the perceived colour of a particular thread was influenced by its surrounding threads, a phenomenon he called “ simultaneous contrast .” Chevreul ’ s work was a continuation of theories of colour elaborated by Leonardo da Vinci and Goethe ; in turn, his work influenced painters including Eugène Delacroix and Georges-Pierre Seurat.

Shortly thereafter she retired to Rome, where she befriended, among others, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who said she worked harder and accomplished more than any artist he knew ; yet, always restive, she wanted to do more and lived for 25 years with much of her old prestige.

Noting that the book featured parts where Eliade spoke of himself in eulogistic terms, notably comparing himself favorably to Goethe and Romania's national poet Mihai Eminescu, Cernat accused the writer of " egolatry ", and deduced that Eliade was " ready to step over dead bodies for the sake of his spiritual ' mission ' ".

Thence he went to Germany, where he met Goethe.

As Goethe demonstrates in his treatise Theory of Colours, at the edge where light and dark meet, color arises because lightness and darkness are the two central properties in the creation of color.

He came to England with his parents in 1799, but in 1804-1805 spent a winter with them at Weimar, Germany, where he met Goethe and Schiller, and took an interest in German literature which influenced his style and sentiments throughout his career.

He became Privatdozent for aesthetics and the history of art at Heidelberg and, after the publication of his suggestive volume on Die romantische Schule in ihrem Zusammenhang mit Goethe und Schiller ( 1850 ), accepted a call as professor to the University of Jena where he lectured on the history of both art and literature.

Back in Europe, he pretended he was a student from the University of Göttingen and travelled to the University of Jena ( where he saw Goethe ), and then to Vienna.

It was first translated to English and then from English to German, where it was received with wonder and fascination by a group of eminent poets, which included Herder and Goethe.

By 1770 Herder went to Strasbourg, where he met the young Goethe.

Hummel later held the position of Kapellmeister in Stuttgart from 1816 to 1819 and in Weimar from 1819 to 1837, where he formed a close friendship with Goethe.

His early career was spent in several European countries, including Italy ( meeting with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Florence ) and England, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy.

In the spring of 1813, he made a journey to northern Germany, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Rückert, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Adelbert von Chamisso and others.