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### Author
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832), German author, poet and "Naturphilosoph".
**Abbreviated name**: *Goethe* \[standard form in IPNI: *Goethe*\]
#### Collections
Unknown; [[Collection G|G]] has at least one Goethe specimen.
*Ref*.: Burdet, Candollea 30: 213. 1975.
#### Bibliography and biography
Complete bibliography of and on all Goethe's publications on the natural sciences: G. Schmid, Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften, Halle (Saale) 1940, 630 p.
- Barnhart 2: 58; BM 2: 690-691; Bossert p. 147; DTS 1: 88-89; LS 10180; PR 3452-3454; Quenstedt p. 166; SO ind. authors 24.
- *Later publications on Goethe's botanical activities*:
- Moebius, Gesch. Bot. p. 450 \[index\]. 1937.
- Schonewille, Bot. Arch. 42: 421-460. 1941.
- Schmid, Chamisso als Naturforscher 7, 168. 1942.
- Arber, Cbron. bot. 10: 67-124. 1946 ('Goethe's Botany').
- Carus, Goethe 1843, modern edition Merian Genast, Zürich 1948.
- Baehni, Gesnerus 6: 110-128. 1949.
- Schuepp, Gesnerus 6: 144-157. 1949.
- Arber, The natural philosophy of plant form, Cambridge 1950.
- Weyland, Sudhoff's Arch. Gesch. Med. 38: 219-233. 1954 (Goethe's Urpflanze).
- Meyer, Willdenowia 1: 773-780. 1957.
- Spudilova, Zprávy 7: 39-41. 1961 (Czeck).
- Meyer, Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 80(3): 209-217. 1967 (relations with C. K. and K. Sprengel).
- Kanaev, Iz. 1st. Biol. 2: 71-89. 1970 (Russian).
- Wells, DSB 5: 442-446. 1972.
- Guédès, Histoire et Nature 1: 27-45. 1973.
- Mägdefrau, Gesch. Bot. 120-126, 310. 1973.
- Winter, Jard. France 7: 13-14. 1973.
- Smit, History of the life sciences 937-938, 1049. 1974 (q.v. for many recent refs.)
- Lipp, Garden Journal 25(1): 2-9. 1975 (portr.)
#### Eponymy
*Goethea* C. G. D. Nees (1821).
#### Handwriting
Candollea 30: 213-214. 1975.
### Publications
##### n.2081. Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären
**Title**
*Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären*. Carl Wilhelm Ettinger. Gotha 1790. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Vers. Metamorph. Pfl.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: Feb-Jun 1790, p. \[i-vi\], \[1\]-86. *Copy*: U. – The book was reprinted with the same imprint sometime between 1810-1850. Schmid gives details on how to distinguish between the true and the false first edition and provides a critical bibliography of all later editions and translations as well as of the rich literature on Goethe's Metamorphosenlehre. See Sotheby (1975) for repr. t.p.'s.
*Ref*.: PR 3452.
- Schmid, Goethe und die Naturwissenschaften 8-9. 1940.
- Sotheby, Stiftung Botanik, A-G, London 1975.