INDEX.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W, X.

A. “Alexis und Dora,” 146 Anson, Lord, his “Voyage Round the World,” 16 Arnim, Bettina von, 159 “Aufgeregten, Die,” 132 B. Ballads, by Goethe, 147; by Schiller, 147 Basedow, 80 Beaumarchais, Memoirs of, 68 “Belinden, An,” 84 Behrisch, 27 Böhme, Professor, 25 Bologna, 107, 111 Boswell, 34, 175 Breitkopf, 27, 34 Brentano, Maximiliane, 59 Brion, Frederika, Goethe’s love for, 41; his parting from, 43; her influence on Goethe, 45; her relation to Maria in “Goetz,” 57; to Maria in “Clavigo,” 69; to Gretchen in “Faust,” 75; Goethe visits, in 1779, 99; in “Dichtung und Wahrheit,” 42, 167 Buff, Charlotte, 51, 58, 60, 66 C. Carlyle, 176, 178, 185 Cellini, Benvenuto, 148 “Claudine von Villa Bella,” 69, 114 “Clavigo,” 68 Clodius, 31 Cuvier, 177 D. “Dichtung und Wahrheit,” 167 Dresden, Goethe studies the picture gallery at, 28 E. Eckermann, 130, 174, 175, 176, 180 “Egmont,” 114, 120 Emmendingen, 59, 83, 99 Ernesti, 24 “Erwin und Elmire,” 69, 114 F. Fahlmer, Johanna, 80, 99 “Faust,” in its earliest form, 72-78; Goethe works at, in Rome, 114; “Faust: A Fragment,” published in 1790, 127; continued, 153; the First Part, published in 1808, 161-166; the Second Part, 180 Fichte, 150 Frankfort, Goethe’s knowledge of, 14 “Frankfurter Gelehrten Anzeigen,” the, 49 G. “Geheimnisse, Die,” 103 Gellert, 24 Goethe, Catharine Elizabeth, Goethe’s mother, 12, 16, 18, 33, 160 Goethe, Christiane, Goethe’s wife, 117, 131, 154, 156, 157, 160, 169 Goethe, Cornelia, Goethe’s sister, 13, 17, 32, 48, 59, 83, 99 Goethe, Frederick George, Goethe’s grandfather, 11 Goethe, Johann Kaspar, Goethe’s father, 12, 14, 17, 19, 22, 90, 99 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, his birth, 11; childhood and boyhood, 11-23; at Leipsic, 24-32; returns, as an invalid, from Leipsic to Frankfort, 32; spends a year and a half at Frankfort, 32-34; at Strasburg, 34-46; influenced by Herder, 37; his love for Frederika Brion, 41; becomes an advocate at Frankfort, 47; gives dramatic form to the history of Goetz von Berlichingen, 48, 54; goes to Wetzlar, 50; his love for Charlotte Buff, 51-52; returns to Frankfort from Wetzlar, 53; “Die Leiden des jungen Werthers,” 60; “Clavigo,” 68; “Stella,” 69; poetic fragments, 70; “Faust” in its earliest form, 72; studies Spinoza, 78; his friendship with Lavater, Basedow, Johanna Fahlmer, Frederick Jacobi, and the Counts Stolberg, 80-82; his love for Lili Schönemann, 82-84; quits Frankfort for Weimar, 85; the first eleven years of his life at Weimar, 86-105; his friendship with Charlotte von Stein, 91; development of his character at Weimar, 93; his official duties, 95-97; his scientific discoveries, 100, 101, 128, 129, 183; his visit to Italy, 106-115; informal marriage, 118; “Egmont,” 120; “Iphigenie,” 122; “Torquato Tasso,” 123; “Faust: A Fragment,” 127; becomes director of the Weimar Theatre, 131; his feeling about the French Revolution, 132; at Valmy, 133; his friendship with Schiller, 134-155; the “Xenien,” 138; “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre,” 138; “Hermann und Dorothea,” 143; ballads, 147; lyrics, 147; “Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert,” 148; “Die Natürliche Tochter,” 152; his formal marriage, 157; his relation to Bettina von Arnim, 159; his mother’s death, 160; his interviews with Napoleon, 161; the First Part of “Faust,” 161; “Die Wahlverwandtschaften,” 166; “Dichtung und Wahrheit,” 167; the “West-Oestlicher Divan,” 168; his feeling about the War of Liberation, 168; becomes First Minister of State, 169; death of his wife, 169; marriage of his son August, 170; his relation to Wilhelmine Herzlieb and Marianne von Willemer, 171, 172; his love for Ulrica von Levezow, 172; the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival at Weimar, 173; death of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Weimar, and of Goethe’s son, 174; Eckermann’s “Conversations with Goethe,” 175; visited by Heine, 175; gift from his English admirers, 176; ideas about the State and society, 176-178; “Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre,” 178; “Kunst und Alterthum,” 179; his letters, 180; the Second Part of “Faust,” 180; his death, 182; general view of his work, 183 Goethe, Julius August Walther, Goethe’s son, 129, 158, 170, 174 Goetz von Berlichingen, his autobiography, 48; his history dramatized, 49; the drama in its second form, 54; reception of the play, 57 Goldsmith, his “Vicar of Wakefield,” 40, 41 “Götter, Helden, and Wieland,” 70 Gottsched, 31 Gretchen, Goethe’s first love, 21, 42, 167 Gretchen, in “Faust,” 75, 163 “Gross-Cophta,” 132 Göschen, 105 H. “Harzreise im Winter,” 103 Heine, Heinrich, 175 Herder, Goethe meets, 37; his character, 37; his influence on Goethe, 39; his criticism of the “Geschichte Gottfriedens von Berlichingen,” 54; settles at Weimar, 89; Goethe’s relations with, 90, 150 “Hermann und Dorothea,” 143-146 Herzlieb, Wilhelmine, 171, 172 “Hexenküche, Die,” written at Rome, 115 Homer, 40, 43, 184 Horn, Goethe’s friend, 25 Hubertusburg, Treaty of, 19 I. Ilmenau, mines at, 96, 100, 117 “Ilmenau,” poem, 103 Intermaxilliary bone, Goethe’s discovery of, in human jaw, 101 “Iphigenie,” in its prose form, 102; transformed to a poetical drama, 111; criticism of, 122 “Italienische Reise,” the, 106 Italy, Goethe’s visit to, 106-115 J. Jacobi, Frederick, 81, 104 Jena, Battle of, 156 Jerusalem, suicide of, 60 Joseph II., his coronation, 21 K. Kanne, 31, 34 Kant, 135, 138, 150 Kestner, 52, 58, 66 Klettenberg, Fräulein von, her influence on Goethe, 33; her death, 84; the original of the “fair soul” in “Wilhelm Meister,” 143 Klopstock, his “Messiah,” 16; writes to Goethe, 86 “Kunst und Alterthum,” 179 L. Laroche, Frau von, 53, 59; Maximiliane, 53 “Laune des Verliebten, Die,” 30 Lavater, 80 Leipsic, Goethe goes to, 22; his life at, 24-32 Lessing, 29, 30, 138 Letters, Goethe’s, 180 Levezow, Ulrica von, 172 Liberation, War of, 168 “Lili’s Park,” 84 Loder, Professor, 101 Lyrics, Goethe’s, 147 M. “Mahomet,” fragment of original drama, 70; Voltaire’s, translated, 152 Mainz, 84, 133 Marie Antoinette, 36 Mephistopheles, in the original “Faust,” 76 Merck, 49, 53, 54, 57, 98 Metamorphosis of Plants, 128 Meyer, 110, 131, 154 Michael Angelo, 109 Mignon, 142 Mineralogy, Goethe’s study of, 100 “Mitschuldigen, Die,” 30 N. Naples, 112 Napoleon, Goethe’s interviews with, 161 “Natürliche Tochter, Die,” 152 “Neue Liebe, Neues Leben,” 84 Newton, Goethe’s rejection of his theory of colours, 130 Nicolai, 67 Niederbronn, 36, 37, 50 O. Oeser, influence of, on Goethe, 27; Frederika, 28, 32 Ossian, 40, 43 Osteology, Goethe’s discoveries in 100, 101, 129, 179 Ottilie, Goethe’s daughter-in-law, 170, 182 P. Paoli, General, 34 Percy’s “Reliques,” 40 Pindar, 51 “Prometheus,” 70 “Propyläen, Die,” 148 R. “Rameaus Neffe,” 149 Raphael, 107, 109, 111 “Reineke Fuchs,” 133 Revolution, the French, 132 Robinson Crusoe, 16 Romantic School, the, 151 Rome, Goethe in, 107-112; 113-115 Römer, the, 15 “Römische Elegien,” 119 Rousseau, 38, 39, 60, 66, 112, 124 Ruskin, 178 S. Salzmann, 35, 49 Schelling, 151 Schiller, publication of the “Robbers,” 103; goes to Weimar, 134; his first meeting with Goethe, 135, settles at Jena, 135; his marriage, 135; asks Goethe to write for the Horen, 136; his friendship with Goethe, 136; unites with Goethe in writing the “Xenien,” 138; his ballads, 147; “Wallenstein,” 149; settles at Weimar, 149; his later plays, 152; his death, 154 Schlegel, the brothers, 151 Schlosser, 25, 59, 99, 160 Schönemann, Lili, 82-84, 99, 167 Schönkopf, Annette, 26, 31, 34, 42, 167 Schröter, Corona, 93, 102 Scott, Sir Walter, 176 Sculpture, Goethe’s study of ancient, 109, 120 Shakespeare, 29, 39, 47, 55, 184 Sicily, Goethe in, 113 Sixtine Chapel, the, 109, 114 Soret, 177 Southey, 176 Spinoza, 78, 186 St. Gotthard, 83 St. Hilaire, Geoffrey, 177 St. Peter’s, 109 Staël, Madame de, 151 Stein, Charlotte von, 91, 99, 104, 106, 113, 117, 119 “Stella,” 69 Stilling, Jung, 35 Stock, 28 Stolberg, the Counts, 82, 83 Strasburg, Goethe’s life at, 34-46; later visits to, 83, 99 Switzerland, Goethe’s first visit to, 83; his second, 98; his third, 148 T. Textor, Johann Wolfgang, 12, 17 Tischbein, 110, 112 Thorane, Count, 18 “Torquato Tasso,” prose fragment, 103; poetical drama, 124 Types, doctrine of, 101, 128, 129, 186 V. Valmy, 133 Venice, 107, 129 Vesuvius, 112 Voss, his “Luise,” 143 W. “Wahlverwandtschaften, Die,” 166 “Wanderer, The,” 50 “Wanderers Sturmlied,” 50 Wandering Jew, the, 70 Weimar, state of, when Goethe arrived there, 86; the great period in history of, 150; plundered, 156 Weimar, Duke of, invites Goethe to visit him, 84; Goethe’s relations with, 86, 87; Goethe becomes a member of his Privy Council, 91; gives Goethe a house in the Park, 91; Goethe goes with him to Berlin and Switzerland, 98; relieves Goethe of many official duties, 116; gives Goethe a house in Weimar, 131; Goethe accompanies him in Champagne, 133; he is made a Grand Duke, 169; influenced by Fräulein Jagemann, 171; the fiftieth anniversary of his accession, 173; his death, 174 Weimar, Duchess of, 87, 119, 157, 174; Duchess Dowager of, 88, 129 “Werther, Die Leiden des jungen,” origin of, 60; the tale, 61; characteristics of, 63; reception of, 66 “West-Oestlicher Divan,” 168 Wetzlar, Goethe goes to, 50; leaves, 53 Wieland, his influence on Goethe, 29; Goethe writes a farce on, 70; Goethe’s relations with, at Weimar, 88, 150 Willemer, Marianne von, 172 “Wilhelm Meister,” “Lehrjahre,” begun, 103; “Lehrjahre,” completed, 138; “Wanderjahre,” 178 Winckelmann, his death, 30; at Rome Goethe is helped by his writings, 108, 120, 184; Goethe’s book about, 148 Wordsworth, 176 X. “Xenien,” 138