When1: 1773
When2: 1821
Who: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von]
What: novelist/playwright/scientist
Where: Germany
works\ Gotz von Berlichingen [1773: play]; Sorrows of Young Werther [1774: novel]; Iphigenie auf Tauris [1787: play]; Romische Elegien or Roman Elegies [1790: poems]; Hermann und Dorothea [1798: poem]; Egmont [1808: play]; Faust [1808 to 1832: part 1 and part 2, plays]; Die Wahlverwandschaften or Elective Affinities [1809: novel]; Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit or Out of My Life: Poetry and Truth [1811 to 1813: poems]; Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre or Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship [1821: novel]; Metamorphosis of Plants [1790: nonfiction book]; Theory of Colors [1810: nonfiction book]; Italienische Reise or Italian Journey [1817: nonfiction book]
Detail: He lived 1749 to 1832 and wrote about strong emotions {sturm und drang}. He studied color contrast effects {Goethe's shadows} and biology. Living things have repeated parts with similar structures. Leaf is basic plant form, and other plant parts are leaf variations. Skulls evolved from vertebrae.
Metaphysics
Nature is a living whole, a unity manifesting God. All transitory things are but symbols. Things have archetypes or beginning forms {Ur, Goethe}.
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