==Page move + intro cleanup== 
 I’ve checked Britannica (1911), Britannica (2002), [Columbia encyclopedia (2005), World Encyclopedia (1980), Encarta (2006), Biography.com (2007), Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biography (2007), the Quotations Page, as well as a Google search for Goethe and Wikipedia is the only source that leaves out the “von” in his name title.  As such, I plan request a page move to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.   

 Moreover, the definitive sentence of Goethe needs to be concise, i.e., as compared to other references, we need to pick the top four (or so) words that define him.  Then describe more following the main sentence.  Certainly the word “polymath” is not a main definer.