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Goethe in the Roman Campagna, by Johann Tischbein, 1786-87


“Germany? Where is it? / I do not know where to find such a country,” wrote Goethe and Schiller in 1796. In Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Borders move. The past keeps changing. Cities and regions which were for centuries German are not firmly parts of other countries. What does that mean for them, and for the Germans? . . . Page 1



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One Nation Under Goethe

There is a portrait, painted in 1787 by the Artist Johann Tischbein, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_Wilhelm_Tischbein that is to most German people instantly recognizable. In fact, it would probably be fair to say that this picture is by far the most famous portrait in the whole of Germany. It hangs in Stadel Museum in Frankfurt and shows us the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Italy, dashingly wrapped in a white traveller’s cloak and wearing a broad-brimmed black hat, sitting on some Roman remains and looking purposefully into the middle distance. And if Germans know this image of their great national poet above all others, they also know him above all as the author of one supreme drama, which is not just a great poetic tragedy, but has long been a defining element in the German national myth: “Faust; ~ Page 131

Germany ~ Memories of a Nation
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Goethe has shown that the modern money economy based on its strange new money was a “continuation of alchemy by other means.” Writing in the first decade of nineteenth century, Goethe seemed to forecast many of the industrial achievements of that age. In other writings, he predicted the building of the Suez Canal, and nearly a century before the opening of the Panama Canal and long before the United States had made an important appearance on the stage of world history, Goethe predicted that the young nation would build a canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. As a scientist and statesman as well as a poet and playwright, he foresaw the great accomplishment and the shortcomings of the emerging industrial world that would be financed on the newly emerging monetary system of paper money. ~ Page 139 ~ Excerpt “The History of Money” ~ Jack Rutherford : Author

The History of Money
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This fundamental blueprint of heads helps us make sense of one of the apocryphal tales in anatomy. In 1820, so the story goes, Johannes Goethe was walking through the Hewish cemetery in Vienna when he spotted a decomposing skeleton of a ram. The vertebrae were exposed and above them lay a damaged skull. Goethe, in a moment of epiphany, saw that the breaks in the skull made it look like a gnarled mess of vertebrae. To Goethe, this revealed the essential pattern within: the head is made up of vertebrae that fused and grew a vault to hold our brains and sense organs. This was a revolutionary idea because it linked heads and bodies as two versions of the same fundamental plan. The notion must have been in the drinking water in the early 1800s because other people, among them Lorenz Oken, allegedly came with with virtually the same idea in a similar setting. - page 89

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