List of Goethe's scribes
As a writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe often dictated letters and poems and employed many writers throughout his life ; in alphabetic order:
- A. v. Goethe: Julius August von Goethe
- C. John: Ernst Carl Christian John
- Caroline Ulrich: Caroline Wilhelmine Johanna Riemer , b. Ulrich
- Johann David Compter
- Johann Peter Eckermann
- Michael Färber
- Johann Jacob Ludwig Geist
- Johann Georg Paul Gotze
- Johann August Friedrich John
- Gottlieb Friedrich Krause
- Friedrich Theodor David Herbs
- Friedrich Wilhelm Riemer
- Johann Christian Rötsch, billeteer and prompter at the Weimar Court Theater
- Johann Christian Schuchardt
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schumann, landscape cash calculator in Weimar (1765–1850)
- Philipp Friedrich Seidel
- Carl Stadelmann
- Christoph Erhard Sutor
- Christian Georg Carl Vogel
- Christian August Vulpius
- Heinrich Ernst Weber, State and Chancellery Registrar in Weimar
- Christian Ernst Friedrich Weller