Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Besides being a writer, he was also a theoretical physicist, biologist, polymath, pictorial artist and statesman.
He created the idea of the romantic hero with his novelThe Sorrows of Young Wertherin 1774.
At the time of the 19th century, he owned the largest collection of minerals in all of Europe.
- Goethe was multilingual, as he could speak Greek, Italian, Latin, English, Hebrew, and French besides his native German.
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Besides being a writer, he was also a theoretical physicist, biologist, polymath, pictorial artist and statesman.
He created the idea of the romantic hero with his novelThe Sorrows of Young Wertherin 1774.
At the time of the 19th century, he owned the largest collection of minerals in all of Europe.
- Goethe was multilingual, as he could speak Greek, Italian, Latin, English, Hebrew, and French besides his native German.
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