ernstes

Updated: June 17, 2025

Of Goethe's father we know only what the son himself has told us in his memoirs. A man of austere presence, from whom Goethe, as he tells us, inherited his bodily stature and his serious treatment of life, "Vom Vater hab ich die Statur, Des Lebens ernstes führen."

John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 : Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam