Goethe's 260th Birthday Celebration July 28, 2009

Goethe's 260th Birthday Celebration. A collaboration of Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad with Indo-German Nachkontakt Assiciation IGNA. On the occasion of the 260th birthday celebration of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Indo-German Nachkontakt Association (IGNA), and Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad commemorate this German master through a series of activities, including video presentations and talks, accompanied by high tea. About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 22 March 1832): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and, according to George Eliot, Germany's greatest man of letters...and the last true polymath to walk the earth.' Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science. Goethe's magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Goethe was one of the key figures of German literature and the movement of Weimar Classicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; this movement coincides with Enlightenment, Sentimentality, Sturm und Drang and Romanticism. The author of the scientific text Theory of Colours, his influential ideas on plant and animal morphology and homology were extended and developed by 19th century naturalists including Charles Darwin. His influence on German philosophy is virtually immeasurable, having major effect especially on the generation of Hegel and Schelling. Goethe's influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a major source of inspiration in music, drama, poetry and philosophy.

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