# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Representative Men character guide

> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Goethe, VII Goethe

**First appearance:** 0007-vii-goethe-or-the-writer

## Who they are

German writer and central subject of the seventh chapter, representing the writer type.

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