Quote of the day: "Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Polymath thinker and literary giant Johann Wolfgang von Goethe left behind a legacy of ...

What motivates a person to spend a life-time forming a collection that overfills every wall of their home? For this collector from New England, it has been the allure of the portraits painted in the ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging ...

Scientists have uncovered hidden fossil insects inside pieces of amber that once belonged to the famed German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Using ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of those rare people who stood out in his time and changed not only literature but also how Europe thought about art, science, and the human spirit. Goethe was born ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer, circa 1800. By Karl Joseph von Stieler (1781-1858). (Photo by Roger Viollet via Getty Images) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is the ...

The German lawyer, author, poet, politician and artist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (born August 28, 1749-1832) was also a mining engineer and quite interested in geology and paleontology. The German ...