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Who influenced Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

  • Benedictus de Spinoza

    Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)

    Influenced 46

    Influenced by 18

  • William Shakespeare

    English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

    Influenced 33

    Influenced by 6

  • Friedrich Schiller

    German poet, philosopher, historian and playwright (1759–1805)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 4

  • Voltaire

    French writer, historian, and philosopher (1694–1778)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 15

  • Carl Linnaeus

    Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 0

  • Johann Gottfried Herder

    German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 5

  • Hafez

    Persian poet and mystic (1325–1390)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 7

  • Napoleon

    French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 0

Who was influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    German philosopher (1844–1900)

    Influenced 71

    Influenced by 67

  • Arthur Schopenhauer

    German philosopher (1788–1860)

    Influenced 28

    Influenced by 6

  • Charles Darwin

    English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)

    Influenced 24

    Influenced by 8

  • Rudolf Steiner

    Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)

    Influenced 21

    Influenced by 5

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

    German philosopher (1775–1854)

    Influenced 17

    Influenced by 12

  • Walter Benjamin

    German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)

    Influenced 16

    Influenced by 5

  • Alexander Pushkin

    Russian poet, playwright, and novelist (1799–1837)

    Influenced 11

    Influenced by 8

  • Friedrich Schiller

    German poet, philosopher, historian and playwright (1759–1805)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 4

  • Muhammad Iqbal

    South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 12

  • André Gide

    French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 10

  • Heinrich Heine

    German poet, writer and literary critic (1797–1856)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 8

  • Oswald Spengler

    German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 1

  • Thomas Mann

    German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 1

  • Almeida Garrett

    Portuguese writer and politician (1799–1854)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 9

  • Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

    German philosopher (1743-1819)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 6

  • Gustav Landauer

    German anarchist, editor (1870-1919)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 8

  • Khachatur Abovian

    Ethnic Armenian writer, activist, academic (1809-1848)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Lucian Blaga

    Romanian writer

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Machado de Assis

    Brazilian writer

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 18

  • Narcís Oller

    Spanish author (1846-1930)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 6

  • Oscar Milosz

    French-Lithuanian poet and representative of Lithuania at the League of Nations (1877-1939)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 4

  • Ferenc Csentery

    American abstract metal sculptor (1937-2014)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • France Prešeren

    Slovene national poet, a Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent (1800-1849)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 6

  • Hovhannes Tumanyan

    Armenian writer and public activist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Irma Shiolashvili

    Georgian poet and translator

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 7

  • Jerzy Prokopiuk

    Polish anthroposophist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Kazimierz Brodziński

    Polish poet (1791-1835)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Nino Haratischwili

    Georgian-German novelist, playwright, and theater director

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • Sorin Cerin

    Romanian philosopher, poet, logician and essayist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 16

  • Zaza Burchuladze

    Georgian writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 9

  • Álvares de Azevedo

    Brazilian poet, essayist, short story writer and playwright

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 8