# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Essays character guide

> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-self-reliance

## Who they are

German writer and statesman, presented as a model of the universal man.

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