Dichtung und Wahrheit
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Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit is an autobiography by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that comprises the time from the poet's childhood to the days in 1775, when he was about to leave for Weimar.
First print
Dichtung und Wahrheit, 1903-1904
Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem
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Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem was a German lawyer. His suicide in Wetzlar became the model for that of The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe.
Carl Wilhelm Jerusalem
Jerusalem's note requesting Kestner's travelling pistols - the original is now in the Goethe- und Schillerarchiv in Weimar.
Silhouette of Elisabeth Herd, 1771
Memorial to Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem in Wetzlar