{"id":49,"date":"2013-06-07T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=49"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:26:54","slug":"great-philosophers-johann-wolfgang-goethe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lidaprypchan.org\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Great Philosophers Johann Wolfgang Goethe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Lida Prypchan<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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We look on Goethe as an enviable figure, privileged, majestic, Olympian, spoiled by the gods from his birth on August 28, 1749. \u00a0The son of a wealthy Frankfurt family, \u00a0Wolfgang Von Goethe never knew the difficulties of life. \u00a0He traveled and studied as and how he wished; in love and literature he achieved triumph after triumph. \u00a0He surrounded his youth with a garland of beautiful women. \u00a0His amorous victories like his literary ones were infinite. \u00a0The glowing success that in full youth bestowed popularity upon him was the novel – in a certain sense autobiographical – Werther, written in epistolary form, romantic and sentimental, which ends with the protagonist killing himself for love. \u00a0A universal spirit, simultaneously a philosopher, critic, physicist, geologist, and biologist while at the same time a poet, Goethe tried to present a unified and original philosophical view of the world in his poem \u201cFaust.\u201d \u00a0The same philosophical ambition appears in the great novel Wilhelm Meister. \u00a0In The Divan, he renewed his poetry under the inspiration of oriental models.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It is impossible to imagine a more complete human antithesis than the poets Goethe and Schiller; however, it is rare for two intelligences to complete and understand each other as theirs did. \u00a0The influence that these two different spirits exercised on each other is incalculable. \u00a0Goethe agreed to collaborate in the poetry journal “The Hours,” founded by Schiller. \u00a0He, in turn, promised to give the Weimar Theater his work “Wallenstein Trilogy.” \u00a0Other works by Schiller, such as Mary Stuart, Joan of Arc, and William Tell, of universal fame, were also performed in the Weimar Theater.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Schiller (1759-1805) was a great friend of Goethe and the most illustrious of his contemporaries. \u00a0Less Olympian than Goethe but endowed with greater emotion, he owed his formation as an apostle of the ideals of justice, tolerance and humanity to Rousseau and the French eighteenth century.<\/span><\/div>\n
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At 46 years of age, at the height of his glory, Schiller died, for which reason the Weimar Theater closed on the day of his death. \u00a0Goethe was not informed of the sad news since he was ill and it would have caused him great pain.<\/span><\/div>\n
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After the death of his friend, Goethe continued to run the theater that was in his charge for a few years more. \u00a0According to a critic ” the refined sense of the purity and beauty of language awoke in the school of Goethe. \u00a0This school that had done so much for Germany gradually fell into mannerism, which caused a reaction in favor of naturalism.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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The duke ordered that the Weimar Theater be rebuilt. \u00a0Goethe was called to this arduous undertaking, and it is worthwhile seeing how he performed it. \u00a0The young poet formed a company whose actors and actresses would be the main personalities of the Court and men of Letters. \u00a0The new company eclipsed those of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Dresden in all respects. \u00a0Among the works they performed were: The Bohemians by Einsiedel, The Confederates and Iphigenia in Tauris, both by Goethe.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In 1779 Duke Karl August appointed him his personal counselor and took him on his trip to Switzerland. \u00a0From this trip he brought the work Hermann and Dorothea. \u00a0After a trip he made to Italy he brought the works: Torquato Tasso, Egmont, and a reworking of Iphigenia in Tauris, in which he tried to adapt the magnificent simplicity of Greek theater.<\/span><\/div>\n
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By 1794 he had reached his maturity as a playwright. \u00a0He was, at that time, the personal counselor and chief minister of the Duke, the supreme arbiter of the Institute, the Botanical Gardens, and the museums and theater. \u00a0One day, in Jena, when leaving a session of the Academy, he met Schiller. \u00a0From that memorable date, German theater became a glorious reality. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Goethe died in 1832 at the age of 83. \u00a0He was buried in Weimar, between the poet Schiller and Prince Karl Augustus. \u00a0He ordered before his death that the windows of his bedroom be opened and he expired asking for, \u201cLight, more light!\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 By Lida Prypchan \u00a0 We look on Goethe as an enviable figure, privileged, majestic, Olympian, spoiled by the gods from his birth on August 28, 1749. \u00a0The son of a wealthy Frankfurt family, \u00a0Wolfgang Von Goethe never knew the difficulties of life. \u00a0He traveled and studied as and how he wished; in love and … <\/p>\n

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