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ˈgœ təgoethe

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1. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethenoun

   German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)

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1. goethe

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe became a member of the Duke's privy council (1776–1785), sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace.Goethe's first major scientific work, the Metamorphosis of Plants, was published after he returned from a 1788 tour of Italy. In 1791 he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar, and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose plays he premiered until Schiller's death in 1805. During this period Goethe published his second novel, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; the verse epic Hermann and Dorothea, and, in 1808, the first part of his most celebrated drama, Faust. His conversations and various shared undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively termed Weimar Classicism. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer named Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship one of the four greatest novels ever written, while the American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson selected Goethe as one of six "representative men" in his work of the same name (along with Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Montaigne, Napoleon, and Shakespeare). Goethe's comments and observations form the basis of several biographical works, notably Johann Peter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe (1836). His poems were set to music by many composers including Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler.

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1. goethe

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a renowned German writer, poet, playwright, and statesman. His most famous work is "Faust," a tragedy that has had a great influence on world literature. Goethe's other notable works include "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship." He also made valuable contributions to various fields such as botany, anatomy, and color theory. Goethe is considered a key figure in Western literature and his literary and scientific works are widely esteemed.

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   Goethe is one of the collection of grape varieties known as Rogers' Hybrids, created by E.S. Rogers in the mid-19th century, and is the result of a cross of Carter, a selection of Vitis labrusca, and Black Hamburg, a selection of Vitis vinifera. It was originally known as Rogers No. 1, until Rogers named it after Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the German author, artist, and scientist. Goethe is female, and thus requires a second grape variety as a pollen source. Fruit is a pale red, ripens late, and is prone to rot. Hedrick considered it the most vinifera-like of the Rogers' Hybrids, but while of high quality, it rarely reaches full maturity in shorter-seasoned climates, and only achieved a measure of popularity in the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West United States.

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1. Goethe

   A Dutchman who succeeded in making a few German words rhyme.

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1. GOETHE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Goethe is ranked #32632 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Goethe surname appeared 704 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Goethe.
   
   75.7% or 533 total occurrences were White.
   22% or 155 total occurrences were Black.
   1.4% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.8% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Goethe in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Goethe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Goethe in a Sentence

1. Leon Trotsky:

   Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

3. George Steiner:

   We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

4. H.L. Mencken:

   It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

5. Guy Davenport:

   Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Goethe
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goethe
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Goethe
5. ^ Who Was Who?
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/984/pg984-images.html#:~:text=Goethe
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Goethe