Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe

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Wolfgang Maximilian Freiherr von Goethe (born September 18, 1820 in Weimar ; † January 20, 1883 in Leipzig ) was a grandson of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and worked as a lawyer and Prussian legation councilor .

Life

youth

Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe, portrait of a youth
Signature in a first edition of the General German Kommersbuch
Grave site at the historical cemetery in Weimar

Goethe was born as the second son of the chamberlain August von Goethe and his wife Ottilie . born by Pogwisch. In 1825 the Weimar City Council granted him, as a foreigner, together with his father and brother, the later composer Walther Wolfgang von Goethe , the citizenship of the residential city of Weimar for ever.

Goethe studied at the University of Heidelberg Law and was in 1845 with a thesis De Fragmento Vegoiae cuius sit momenti in Tractandis antiquitatibus iuris Romani Dr. jur. PhD. During his studies he joined the Fäßlianer fraternity in Heidelberg in 1841 .

career

Goethe was a legation councilor for the Prussian court in Rome . In 1859 he and his brother were raised to the baron status by Grand Duke Carl Alexander . His journalistic activities focused on legal history topics.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 152-153.
  • Dagmar von Gersdorff: Goethe's grandsons Walther, Wolfgang and Alma . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt and Leipzig 2009
  • Bernhard Gajek:  Goethe, Maximilian Wolfgang Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 576 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Max Hecker:  Goethe, Maximilian Wolfgang von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 479-490.
  • Karsten Hein: Ottilie von Goethe (1796–1872). Biography and literary relationships of Goethe's daughter-in-law (= European university publications. Series 1: German Language and Literature , Volume 1782). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-37438-0 (dissertation University of Düsseldorf 2000, 398 pages).
  • Karsten Hein: Ottilie von Goethe. Insights into the house on Frauenplan . In: Andreas Remmel, Paul Remmel (Ed.): Goethe-Blätter. Series of publications by the Goethe Society Siegburg e. V. Volume IV. Bernstein, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809762-4-4 .
  • Domietta Seeliger: Adele Schopenhauer . Not just the philosopher's sister. Analysis of the narrative work by Adele Schopenhauer and the dramatic poem "Erlinde" by Wolfgang Maximilian von Goethe and Adele Schopenhauer (= European University Writings, Series 1, German Language and Literature , Volume 1901). Lang , Frankfurt am Main et al., 2004, ISBN 3-631-53227-X (Dissertation University of Perugia 2004, 223 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Robert Mandelkow : Goethe's letters. Hamburg edition in four volumes. Vol. 4: Letters from the years 1821-1832. 2nd Edition. Christian Wegner Verlag, Hamburg 1976, p. 575
personal data
SURNAME Goethe, Wolfgang Maximilian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Prussian legation councilor
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1883
Place of death Leipzig