Bekenntnis einer schönen Seele oder Darstellung eines sonderbaren Menschen
SummaryBiography means Description of the Life. Life-Description combines the account of the course of life with the inner development of every human being with the contemplation of its Life-Results. Therefore the biography of an literary author could be examined as a result of the cognition: light which shows us the productions of poetry. The biography who explains us these productions has the author in the focus of interest.This essay gives a view about the German efforts to approach the phenomenon Goethe in biographical way. This essay has been making the attempt to count the Goethe-Biographies since the author’s dead: minimum the mention, maximum the description.