Johann Peter Eckermann

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Birth: August 28, 1749 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Death: March 22, 1832 (Weimar, Germany). Style and genre: In Goethe, the traditional German language and voice combine, in a complex way, intellectual thought with a dramatic plot. Few writers incorporate the literary culture of a nation as completely as Goethe does for his native Germany. An authentic Renaissance man, his position as the principal author of the German language remains undisputed. A prominent figure in the cultural movements of Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) and Weimar classicism, which sought to imitate Greek classicism, Goethe's influence spread throughout Europe as the emblematic representation of Romanticism.