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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe was born into a middle-class family in Frankfurt am Main on 28 August 1749.When was gandhi in london
In accordance with his father's wishes he studied law at Leipzig, where he came under the influence of the poet C. F. Gellert, who introduced him to such English writers as Sterne, Young, and Richardson. Another acquaintance, A.
F. Oeser, introduced him to Greek art and the novels of C. M. Wieland. At this time he wrote a number of collections of lyric poems and songs in the Rococo mode which he later termed "fragments of a great confession."
In 1768 he was forced by illness to return home, and developed an interest in occult philosophy and alchemy.
After his recovery was complete, he went to Strasburg to finish his legal training; there his interest in Rococo waned as he became increasingly dedicated to German Gothicism. There, too, he came under the influence of J. G. Herder, with whom he discussed poetry, art, primitivism, and the Volkslied, the effects of w