Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German thinker, artist, politician, and writer. Lived 1749-1832. Influenced the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Hermann Hesse, and Thomas Mann. Upon death he left over 10,000 letters, nearly 3000 drawings, and countless other small ideas and discoveries.

Goethe was dead for 113 years before the narrator says he visited Dresden.