Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Goethe lived through tumultuous times in politics and, consequently, in censorship. He had seen the coronation of Joseph II in 1764, deplored the French Revolution from afar in 1789, witnessed the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1803, met Napoleon in 1808, heard of Napoleon’s defeat in Leipzig in 1813, and witnessed the establishment of the German Confederation of thirty- nine states at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Throughout Goethe’s life censorship varied in extent and degree in each of the many German principalities, city states, and territories (in...
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