Goethe and prehistory

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1745-1744|59|227|197-201

ISSN: 0003-598x

Source: Antiquity, Vol.59, Iss.227, 1985-11, pp. : 197-201

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Abstract

In this fascinating article, the Professor of Archaeology in the University of Exeter shows us that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was not only the author of Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and of beautiful lyrics, ballads and love-songs, but was keenly interested in prehistory and was well abreast of the subject as it was developing in Germany in the early nineteenth century.