Friederike Brion
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Friederike Elisabeth Brion was a parson's daughter who had a short but intense love affair with the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Friederike Brion imagined in Alsatian attire
Parsonage of Sessenheim around 1770. Drawing by Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christi
Friederike Brion
…Friederike Elisabeth Brion (probably 19 April 1752 – 3 April 1813) was a parson's daughter who had a short but intense love affair with the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Born in Niederrœdern, Alsace, the date of birth of Friederike is uncertain because the parish registers were destroyed during the French Revolution…
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828
Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt (Großer Hirschgraben)
Goethe, age 38, painted by Angelica Kauffman, 1787
Goethe, by Luise Seidler (Weimar 1811)