From 1765 to 1768, he studied law in Leipzig, and, while these studies ended in illness and failure, Goethe soon recovered himself and developed influential friendships with intellectuals and artists like Johann Gottfried Herder, who introduced him to Shakespeare, who catalyzed Goethe’s literary awakening. He also developed an early interest in literature, especially the Homeric epics of the Odyssey and the Iliad, the Old Testament, and the poetry of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The son of Johann Caspar Goethe and Catharina Elizabeth Textor, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born into a life of privilege: he received his education from private tutors, and as a young boy was trained in the arts of dancing, horseback riding, and fencing.
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