Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was one of the greatest artists of the German Romantic period. He was a poet, playwright, novelist, and natural philosopher. Thomas P. Saine (1941-2013) was professor emeritus of German at the University of California, Irvine. Jeffrey L. Sammons (1936-2021) was the Leavenworth Professor of German Literature Emeritus at Yale University.