He also long served as the privy councilor ("Geheimrat") of the duchy of Weimar. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours, he influenced Darwin with his focus on plant morphology. With this key figure of German literature, the movement of Weimar classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries coincided with Enlightenment, sentimentality (Empfindsamkeit), Sturm und Drang, and Romanticism. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.
People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism. George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters. A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 18, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
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