Goethe (surname) explained
Goethe (also Göthe and Gœthe) is a German surname. It is best known for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).It belongs to the group of surnames derived from given names, in this case given names in Got-, in most cases likely Gottfried (c.f. Götz). Variants of the surname include Göth, Goeth and Göthke, Götke.
The name is comparatively rare; the German phonebook (as of 2013) has 176 entries for Göthe and 168 entries for Goethe; 179 entries for Göth and 28 entries for Goeth; 11 entries for Götke and 2 entries for Göthke.[1]
List of people with the surname
Members of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's family bearing the surname:
- his great-grandfather, Hans Christian Göthe (fl. 1650s), a blacksmith of Kannawurf, Thuringia, married Sibylla Werner
- his grandfather Friedrich Georg Göthe (6 September 1657 - 10 November 1730), lived in Lyon but in 1685 with the suspension of the Edict of Nantes was forced to move to Frankfurt.
- his parents, Johann Caspar Goethe (29 July 1710 - 25 May 1782) and Catharina Elisabeth Goethe, née Textor (19 February 1731 - 13 September 1808)
- his wife (m. 1806) and former mistress Christiane von Goethe (1765-1816) née Vulpius
- their son August von Goethe (born out of wedlock 25 December 1789, died 28 October 1830), and his wife Ottilie von Goethe, née von Pogwisch (31 October 1796 – 26 October 1872).
Other people called Goethe, Göthe or Gothe:
See also
Notes and References
- http://www.verwandt.de/karten/absolut/goethe.html Goethe (verwandt.de)
