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Goethe and prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Malcolm Todd
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In this fascinating article, the Professor of Archaeology in the University of Exeter shows us that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was not only the author of Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and of beautiful lyrics, ballads and love-songs, but was keenly interested in prehistory and was well abreast of the subject as it was developing in Germany in the early nineteenth century.

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Antiquity , Volume 59 , Issue 227 , November 1985 , pp. 197 - 201
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1985

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