Die wandelnde glocke von goethe biography

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt am Main. He was greatly influenced by his mother, who encouraged his literary aspirations. After troubles at school, he was taught at home and gained an exceptionally wide education. At the age of 16, Goethe began to study law at Leipzig University from 1765 to 1768, and he also studied drawing with Adam Oeser. After a period of illness, he resumed his studies in Strasbourg from 1770 to 1771. Goethe practiced law in Frankfurt for two years and in Wetzlar for a year. He contributed to the Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeigen from 1772 to 1773, and in 1774 he published his first novel, self-revelatory Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers. In 1775 he was welcomed by Duke Karl August into the small court of Weimar, where he worked in several governmental offices. He was a council member and member of the war commission, director of roads and services, and managed the

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Es war ein Kind, das wollte nie
A child there was who never would
Zur Kirche sich bequemen,
Agree to go to church,
Und sonntags fand es stets ein Wie,
And every Sunday would find a way
Den Weg ins Feld zu nehmen.
Of escaping to the fields.

Die Mutter sprach: die Glocke tönt,
His mother said: the church bell’s ringing,
Und so ist dir’s befohlen,
And so you are commanded,
Und hast du dich nicht hingewöhnt,
And if you’ve not grown used to it,
Sie kommt und wird dich holen.
The bell will come and fetch you.

Das Kind, es denkt: die Glocke hängt
The child thinks, the bell is hanging
Da droben auf dem Stuhle.
Up there in the belfry.
Schon hat’s den Weg ins Feld gelenkt,
And already he’s heading for the fields,
Als lief’ es aus der Schule.
As though running out of school.

Die Glocke, Glocke tönt nicht mehr,
The bell, the bell no longer rings,
Die Mutter hat gefackelt.
Mother was talking nonsense.
Doch welch ein Schrecken hinterher!
But what a fright behind

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The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

​GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, a German author, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main, Aug. 28, 1749, died in Weimar, March 22, 1832. His father, Johann Kaspar Goethe, the son of a tailor of Frankfort, had raised himself to the dignity of an imperial councillor, and in 1748 had married Katharina Elisabeth, daughter of Johann Wolfgang Textor, the ledare magistrate of the city. Their first offspring, the subject of this article, inherited the best qualities of both parents. The father, a cold, stern, formal, and pedantic man, was a person of vigorous mind and of rigid will; and the mother was a simple-hearted, genial, vivacious, and affectionate woman, who loved poetry and the romantic lore of the nursery. In one of his poems Goethe afterward said: “From my father I derive my frame and the steady guidance of my life, and from my dear little mother my happy disposition and love of story-telling.” But he derived a g