Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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1765- Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany 
 1770- Universität Straßburg 
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(1749 - 1832)
Flitner, Wilhelm, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), S. 546-575 [Onlinefassung]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, Positiones juris theses Strasbourg (1771) is available online. Goethe's dissertation „De Legislatoribus“ was rejected by the faculty at Strasbourg; he therefore submitted the theses instead
German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature.