Indeed his work shaped an entire era that bears his name, the Goethezeit (Goethe Era) also known as Weimar Classicism. Considered a universal genius, Goethe was a writer and poet, but also a scientist ...

He is associated with counter-Enlightenment ideas, Weimar Classicism, and the proto-romantic Sturm und Drang movement in German literature. Above all, Herder is noted for his theory that true ...