The movement, from 1772 until 1805, involved Herder as well as polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ) and Friedrich Schiller ( 1759 – 1805 ), a poet and historian.

* German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe re-envisioned the meeting of Faust and Helen.

Goethite ( FeO ( OH )), ( ) named after the German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is an iron bearing oxide mineral found in soil and other low-temperature environments.

The polymath Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach contributed one of the foundation texts of the plastic surgery specialty.

Dr. von Gräfe ’ s protégé, the medical and surgical polymath Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach ( 1794 – 1847 ), who was among the first surgeons to anaesthetize the patient before performing the nose surgery, published Die Operative Chirurgie ( Operative Surgery, 1845 ), which became a foundational medical and plastic surgical text.

Johannes Trithemius ( 1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516 ), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German abbot, lexicographer, historian, cryptographer, polymath and occultist who had an influence on later occultism.

* Johann Schreck-German Jesuit, Missionary to China and polymath

* Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet and polymath

It is named after German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – poet and polymath

The German polymath Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach was a pioneer in the fields of plastic surgery.

Johann Heinrich Schulze or Schultz ( 12 May 1687 – 10 October 1744 ) was a German professor and polymath from Colbitz in the Duchy of Magdeburg.

Johannes Schöner ( January 16, 1477 in Karlstadt am Main – January 16, 1547 in Nürnberg ) ( aka, Johann Schönner, Johann Schoener, Jean Schönner, Joan Schoenerus ) was a renowned and respected German polymath.

In 17th century, the Carniolan polymath Johann Weikhard von Valvasor described the lake in his letter to the Royal Society which was later published in society's Proceedings.

One very early experiment in electrical telegraphy was an electrochemical telegraph created by the German physician, anatomist and inventor Samuel Thomas von Sömmering in 1809, based on an earlier, less robust design of 1804 by Spanish-Catalan polymath and scientist Francisco Salva Campillo.

* Hermann von Helmholtz, great German polymath, invented the ophthalmoscope ( 1851 ) and published important work on physiological optics, including colour vision ( 1850s ).

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, a German polymath who wrote primarily in Latin and French.

* John von Neumann ( mathematician and polymath )

The polymath Alexander von Humboldt studied mining at the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1791 / 1792.

* Matthias Bel ( 1684 – 1749 ), Hungarian scholar, polymath and Lutheran pastor

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

* 1126 – Averroes Arab Spanish physician, philosopher and polymath ( d. 1198 )

* 1198 – Averroes, Cordoban philosopher and polymath ( b. 1126 )

Count Francesco Algarotti ( 11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764 ) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.

* 1615 – Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian polymath and playwright ( b. 1535 )

In China, the polymath Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) formulated a hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of fossil animal shells in a geological stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by deposition of silt.

(; ) ( 1098 – 17 September 1179 ), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.

( in the Book of the Devil Valley Master ), A main contributor to this field was Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ), a polymath scientist and statesman who was the first to describe the magnetic-needle compass used for navigation, as well as discovering the concept of true north.

Shen's contemporary Su Song ( 1020 – 1101 ) was also a polymath and astronomer responsible for the creation of celestial atlas of star maps, as well for writing a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.

27th century BC ( circa 2650 – 2600 BC ) ( Egyptian meaning " the one who comes in peace, is with peace "), was an Egyptian polymath, who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis.

* 1858 – Harry Hamilton Johnston, English polymath ( d. 1927 )

* 1871 – William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath ( d. 1938 )

Leon Battista Alberti ( February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( ) ( April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style ) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

* 1641 – Janez Vajkard Valvasor, Slovenian polymath ( d. 1693 )

Michael Polanyi, FRS ( 11 March 1891 – 22 February 1976 ) was a Hungarian polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.

* 1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath ( d. 1765 )

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

* 973 – Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Khwarezmi-Persian scholar and polymath ( d. 1048 )

* Leonardo da Vinci, ( 1452 – 1519 ), Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.

* Leon Battista Alberti ( 1404 – 1472 ) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath.

* Al-Farabi, a Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers ( c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 ).