meanwhile , at a pushkin - einstein festival staged recent in vienna to observe the poets ' birthdays ( this year is goethe ' s 250th ) , nikolai prigov , a late - modernist poet and conceptual artist , took the first line from " onegin " ( " my dad - high ideals inspire him " ) and set it to religious and tibetan hymns and russian orthodox and gregorian chants .
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.