The German writer has made ​​a name for the recording of long talks with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Johann Peter Eckermann's famous "Conversations with Goethe in the last years of his life" (1836) - as the title of the work ...

The romantic writers spoke out in his many-sided work out for a political revival through art. Especially his fantastic works are an important contribution to early Romanticism. Ludwig Joachim von Arnim was with other writers such as Joseph Gorres and ...

The German writer was one of the most outstanding female personalities of romance. They committed themselves not only through their literature on the problems of their time. This is what her social criticism, including works written in conversational form, "This ...

The scientist and humanist, one as co-founder of geography as an empirical science of the most important personalities of science. To explore the interrelationships between the environment and living beings, he made several research trips. However, he became known for ...

The writer is one of the greatest dramatists of the Sturm und Drang period. With his play "Sturm und Drang" of 1776 he gave this literary era its name. His works build on the drama of William Shakespeare and to ...

The German writer and educator was a political writer. Doubtful he achieved fame through his work "On dealing with people" (1788). The book has been misunderstood as a work of etiquette, but was written as an educational brochure for the ...

The writer was important poet, translator, theologian and philosopher of history and culture of the Weimar Classics. He was one of the most influential thinkers of his time and, with Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, ...

The German scientist, art theorist and statesman, is considered the universal genius par excellence of modern times. As a poet he was the leading exponent of the Weimar Classics and a leading representative of the Sturm und Drang period, in ...