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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician1749 to 1832

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Teachers and mentors3

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Adam Friedrich Oeser
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Johann Schweighäuser
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Justus Christian Loder

Taught1

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Christiane Becker-Neumann
born 1778

Education and career2

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1765 to 1768
Leipzig University
studied
1770 to 1771
University of Strasbourg
studied

At a glance

known as: theatre manager, botanist, politician, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, travel writer, physicist, literary scholar, novelist, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, writer, visual artist, art historian, exlibrist, draftsperson, watercolorist, print collector, art collector, printmaker, opinion journalist, naturalist, painter, Theaterintendant
fields: anatomy, meteorology, geology, physics
degrees: licentiate, 1771
awards: Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown, 1827, Officer of the Legion of Honour, 1808, Order of Saint Anna, 1st class, 1808, Grand Cross of the House Order of the White Falcon, 1816, Knight Commander of the Order of Leopold (Austria), Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
member of: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Academy of Science for Public Utility, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, Freemasonry, Zentral-Dombauverein zu Köln von 1842, Silesian Society for the Culture of the Fatherland, Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning, Russian Academy of Sciences, Silesian Society for the Culture of the Fatherland, from 1822, Sächsischer Kunstverein, Arcadian Academy
notable works: Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, Prometheus, Theory of Colours, Italian Journey, West–Eastern Diwan, Egmont, Der Zauberlehrling, Der Erlkönig, Maxims and reflections of Goethe
Wikipedia: in 278 languages

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stated by WikidataWikipediaJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
stated by WikidataWikidataQ5879
stated by WikidataVIAF24602065
stated by WikidataGND118540238
stated by WikidataIdRef026895528
stated by WikidataISNI0000000120999104

papers

stated by WikidataSemantic Scholar134164419

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@misc{academicancestry_Q5879,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q5879},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q5879