who was goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer. George Eliot called him Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the eart... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer. George Eliot called him Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth.. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust.