Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, his birth, 11;
childhood and boyhood, 11-23;
at Leipsic, 24-32;
returns, as an invalid, from Leipsic to Frankfort, 32;
spends a year and a half at Frankfort, 32-34;
at Strasburg, 34-46;
influenced by Herder, 37;
his love for Frederika Brion, 41;
becomes an advocate at Frankfort, 47;
gives dramatic form to the history of Goetz von Berlichingen, 48, 54;
goes to Wetzlar, 50;
his love for Charlotte Buff, 51-52;
returns to Frankfort from Wetzlar, 53;
“Die Leiden des jungen Werthers,” 60;
“Clavigo,” 68;
“Stella,” 69;
poetic fragments, 70;
“Faust” in its earliest form, 72;
studies Spinoza, 78;
his friendship with Lavater, Basedow, Johanna Fahlmer,
Frederick Jacobi, and the Counts Stolberg, 80-82;
his love for Lili Schönemann, 82-84;
quits Frankfort for Weimar, 85;
the first eleven years of his life at Weimar, 86-105;
his friendship with Charlotte von Stein, 91;
development of his character at Weimar, 93;
his official duties, 95-97;
his scientific discoveries, 100, 101, 128, 129, 183;
his visit to Italy, 106-115;
informal marriage, 118;
“Egmont,” 120;
“Iphigenie,” 122;
“Torquato Tasso,” 123;
“Faust: A Fragment,” 127;
becomes director of the Weimar Theatre, 131;
his feeling about the French Revolution, 132;
at Valmy, 133;
his friendship with Schiller, 134-155;
the “Xenien,” 138;
“Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre,” 138;
“Hermann und Dorothea,” 143;
ballads, 147;
lyrics, 147;
“Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert,” 148;
“Die Natürliche Tochter,” 152;
his formal marriage, 157;
his relation to Bettina von Arnim, 159;
his mother’s death, 160;
his interviews with Napoleon, 161;
the First Part of “Faust,” 161;
“Die Wahlverwandtschaften,” 166;
“Dichtung und Wahrheit,” 167;
the “West-Oestlicher Divan,” 168;
his feeling about the War of Liberation, 168;
becomes First Minister of State, 169;
death of his wife, 169;
marriage of his son August, 170;
his relation to Wilhelmine Herzlieb and Marianne von Willemer, 171, 172;
his love for Ulrica von Levezow, 172;
the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival at Weimar, 173;
death of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Weimar,
and of Goethe’s son, 174;
Eckermann’s “Conversations with Goethe,” 175;
visited by Heine, 175;
gift from his English admirers, 176;
ideas about the State and society, 176-178;
“Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre,” 178;
“Kunst und Alterthum,” 179;
his letters, 180;
the Second Part of “Faust,” 180;
his death, 182;
general view of his work, 183
Goethe, Julius August Walther, Goethe’s son, 129, 158, 170, 174
Goetz von Berlichingen, his autobiography, 48;
his history dramatized, 49;
the drama in its second form, 54;
reception of the play, 57
Goldsmith, his “Vicar of Wakefield,” 40, 41
“Götter, Helden, and Wieland,” 70
Gottsched, 31
Gretchen, Goethe’s first love, 21, 42, 167
Gretchen, in “Faust,” 75, 163
“Gross-Cophta,” 132
Göschen, 105
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