Although less remembered now, Wolfgang Goethe was a German polymath and intellectual with gigantic influence in his time and place.
In 1782 he was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and became Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This was an example of "Herr today, von tomorrow".
Goethe
Although less remembered now, Wolfgang Goethe was a German polymath and intellectual with gigantic influence in his time and place.
In 1782 he was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar and became Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. This was an example of "Herr today, von tomorrow".