Goethe Etc.

  Ernst Grumach Aside from a short excursus here and there, e.g.,  the subject of Goethe and world literature or a piece on Goethe and Fanny...

Battle of Valmy, September 20, 1792  My earliest interest focused on the young Goethe, the “pre-Weimar” Goethe, which, from a literary POV e...

Turgenev memorial in Baden-Baden Not even a day after my last post, I must add an addendum. I went to midtown today and stopped at the Gradu...

I am sure that the title of this post is surprising, but as I have written on many occasions Goethe turns up in the most surprising places. ...

Boswell (center) and Johnson (left) at home of Joshua Reynolds And now for something completely different. My research on Goethe leads me do...

It seems like only yesterday that I wrote a long post on the above subject, but it was actually last year. That is a sign of how fast the y...

That was the summer Goethe spent in Wetzlar ostensibly building up his legal bona fides. As with Goethe’s earlier legal education (first in ...