Hello all. Today I have a very interesting post. It is about the man who started it all with the Germanys’s foreign relations. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. I visited the house in which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe once lived. FYI the person in the featured image is actually his father, Johann Casper von Goethe. He apparently was the most important person of the family. He was the person who brought all the fame to the family. When people came to Frankfurt during this time, you could not come there and not hear the name Johann Casper von Goethe. Definitely a legend of his time. Unfortunately, this blog is not about JCG. Though he had arguably the biggest impact on Wolfgang. It is about his son. Our lovely tour guide explained that Goethe did not become very aspiring until his later years. She explained that he was not necessarily lazy, he just had not found his calling until later in his life. He was more concerned with his love interests. This love interest coincidentally did not return the feelings. The tour guide said “Who knows? maybe after that love interest failed, he started becoming more focused with his studies.” His father had him and the family speaking many different languages. Johann Casper Von Goethe wanted the entire family to understand different texts in other languages. He had to force his wife to learn Italian. This actually made me laugh. They had a very big house; 5 floors. Every room had a different color and there was a purpose for that, and this purpose given by Wolfgangs father. I did not catch what the reason was, because the tour guide was speaking very fast. Furthermore, their house contained a very massive library. This library had and still has books they used for studying languages and texts. The counter in the gallery, Goethe used this counter to write his own books. It was made extra wide so he could lay the entire text, book, or large amounts of paper. They had a game station that they used to play chess and Chinese checkers. Their father actually reminds me of my own mother. Never giving me a chance to be complacent, and always learning with everything with which I was occupying my time. The big clock was specially made by German craftsmen all sculpted by hand. The clock had extra numbers next to and under the hour. These numbers were to show the season, time and of the year. They had many different paintings. Johann and his father shared a very contagious love for artwork. His mother had a love for sowing. In the slide show it shows a tool she used for sowing. It seemed the entire family had to do a great deal of helping around the house. The Johann Casper did not want cleaning ladies. They would use the water well for drinking, cooking, and baths. There also a part of the house that Johann Casper kept closed. It contained many expensive items and a portion he would put on display whenever guests came to visit. Goethe is definitely like his father. From one legend to another like father like son. Goethe was a poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher, diplomat. He use his language skills in all of his work. He studied at Leipzig University and Univerisity of Strasburg. I hope in the near future I can study at his University in Frankfurt. Thats all for now folks!!! I hope you all enjoyed today’s throwback to a very important person in Germany’s history. Posting another soon be ready.
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