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Besides being a writer, he was also a theoretical physicist, biologist, polymath, pictorial artist and statesman.
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He created the idea of the romantic hero with his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774.
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At the time of the 19th century, he owned the largest collection of minerals in all of Europe.
- Goethe was multilingual, as he could speak Greek, Italian, Latin, English, Hebrew, and French besides his native German.