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This documentation of the genesis of Goethe's works was compiled in
the 1950s by Momme and Katharina Mommsen at the Deutsche Akademie
der Wissenschaften [German Academy of Sciences] in East Berlin.and
is now continued at the Mommsen Foundation for the Advancement of
Goethe Research in California. The work reconstructs and documents
the history of the genesis of Goethe's works, based on all of the
currently available documents, letters and personal journal entries
written by Goethe himself and those close to him. The material
includes numerous texts that were previously unknown or largely
ignored. The carefully edited documents, which are arranged in
chronological order, provide unique insight into the creative
processes behind Goethe's works and into both the intellectual and
personal cosmos in which Goethe created them. The background of the
genesis of his biographical, historical, art-theoretical and
natural-scientific writings is also documented. The first three
volumes of the work have been published by Walter de Gruyter in
2006. The first two volumes are reproductions of the volumes
originally published in 1958, which have been expanded to include
new documents. It is planned to publish one additional volume every
two years. The complete work comprise approximately 18 volumes
This documentation of the genesis of Goethe's works was compiled in
the 1950s by Momme and Katharina Mommsen at the Deutsche Akademie
der Wissenschaften [German Academy of Sciences] in East Berlin.and
is now continued at the Mommsen Foundation for the Advancement of
Goethe Research in California. The work reconstructs and documents
the history of the genesis of Goethe's works, based on all of the
currently available documents, letters and personal journal entries
written by Goethe himself and those close to him. The material
includes numerous texts that were previously unknown or largely
ignored. The carefully edited documents, which are arranged in
chronological order, provide unique insight into the creative
processes behind Goethe's works and into both the intellectual and
personal cosmos in which Goethe created them. The background of the
genesis of his biographical, historical, art-theoretical and
natural-scientific writings is also documented. The first three
volumes of the work have been published by Walter de Gruyter in
2006. The first two volumes are reproductions of the volumes
originally published in 1958, which have been expanded to include
new documents. It is planned to publish one additional volume every
two years. The complete work comprise approximately 18 volumes
This documentation of the genesis of Goethe's works was compiled in
the 1950s by Momme and Katharina Mommsen at the Deutsche Akademie
der Wissenschaften [German Academy of Sciences] in East Berlin.and
is now continued at the Mommsen Foundation for the Advancement of
Goethe Research in California. The work reconstructs and documents
the history of the genesis of Goethe's works, based on all of the
currently available documents, letters and personal journal entries
written by Goethe himself and those close to him. The material
includes numerous texts that were previously unknown or largely
ignored. The carefully edited documents, which are arranged in
chronological order, provide unique insight into the creative
processes behind Goethe's works and into both the intellectual and
personal cosmos in which Goethe created them. The background of the
genesis of his biographical, historical, art-theoretical and
natural-scientific writings is also documented. The first three
volumes of the work have been published by Walter de Gruyter in
2006. The first two volumes are reproductions of the volumes
originally published in 1958, which have been expanded to include
new documents. It is planned to publish one additional volume every
two years. The complete work comprise approximately 18 volumes
A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian
culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by
his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam. Abundant evidence bears
witness to Johann Wolfgang Goethe's lifelong predilection for the
literature, religion, and culture of ancient Arabia. Scholars have
hardly yet touched upon Goethe's relationship to Arabic literature.
His remarkable West-oestlicher Divan suggested that his interest in
the "Orient" was limited to the Persian poet Hafez, his chief model
for the collection, and to the culture of Persia. Yet significant
aspects of this work and others stem from pre-Islamic and Islamic
traditions of Arabian literature. This study examines
comprehensively Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated
primarily by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his
highly nuanced attitude toward Muhammad, the Qur'an, and Islam.
Katharina Mommsen has explored exhaustively Goethe's opinions about
Arab poets and their sources, the numerous traces of Arabic poetry
that entered his works, and thegrounds for his ambivalent affinity
for Islam and its Prophet. Extensive textual evidence reveals how
throughout his life Goethe's temperament determined his interest in
particular Arabian poets and was in turn modulated by them.The
study also opens new perspectives on Goethe's biography, especially
in the early nineteenth century when he was writing the Divan.
Katharina Mommsen's studies of Goethe, including Goethe und die
Moallakat, Goethe und 1001 Nacht, and numerous articles on Goethe
and Islam, are recognized internationally. She is Professor Emerita
of German at Stanford University. Michael M. Metzger is Professor
Emeritus of German at the University at Buffalo.
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