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Goethe, German poet, 19th century (1956). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar. He is best known for his dramatic poem Faust, completed in 1832. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.