Johann Christian Kestner
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Johann Georg Christian Kestner was a German lawyer and archivist. He is also notable as the model for Lotte's husband Albert in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, with Kestner's fiancée Charlotte
Johann Georg Christian Kestner
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