Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Goethe was born on August 28, 1749 and he died on March 22, 1832.  Goethe is the on German literary. figure whose range and international standing equal those of Germanys supreme philosophers he had often drawn on his works and ideas and composers. In the literary culture of the German- speaking countries, he has had so dominant a position that, since the end of the 18th century, his writings have been described as classical. In the 1749-69 Goethe was one of the very few figures of Germanys 18th century literary renaissance who were, in full sense of the term, "bourgeois." Unlike most of his contemporaries, he had no need, at least in the first half of his life, to seek princely patronage of his writing or employment as an official or an academic. The Frankfurt in which he was born and in which his social attitudes were formed was, as it is now, a wealthy commercial and financial centre, but it was also virtually a self governing republic, a city-state within the Holy Roman Empire. The nobility and the grand and petty sovereigns who figured so much in Goethes later life had no apart in his early experiences he was a town child from a rich family in an essentially middle class world. " https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=goeth&form=HDRSC2&first=1&cw=1117&ch=729