Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer who is widely regarded as the most influential in the German language. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman and theatre director, and he also wrote on botany, anatomy and color. His first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, made him famous, and in 1775 he settled in Weimar, which became the center of his life. Erotica Romana is the early title of his Roman Elegies, poems written after his journey to Italy.