Art, on,331Mercury, the,499; 41Germans, the, and the French,417;and the English,505Germany,465,131;Empire of,151(seealso under Charles II, Imperial Chamber, Joseph II., &c.)rise of,218;ruling princes of618;state of,618,676.Seealso under Seven Years' War, &c.Gerock, Antoinette,578----family,636Gerstenberg,228Gessner,228,230,624,654;hisIsagoge,200Geyser, engraver,265,279Giovinazzi, teacher,5Gleim, J. W. L., poet,228,238,344,542;his war songs,237Gnats, the, of the Rhine,402God, opinions on,19,291,26(seealso under Religion, &c.);and Abraham,111;and the gods,133;and Lucifer,300;and Nature,30,425.Seealso under Nature.Gods,Heroes, andWieland,666Godfather and gossip, the words,67Goethe, the name,351----, Cornelia Friederike, afterwards Schlosser, Goethe's sister,21,50,94,146,170,190,191,193,288,438,480,496,543,634,668----, Friedrich Georg, Goethe's paternal grandfather,52----, Johann Kaspar, Goethe's father,78,84,93,116,118,119,123,124,126,149,174,188,189,190,201,209,271,288,296,304,334,386,437,43,77,84,147,150,152,161,162;his books,16;his education and dissertation,20;his pictures,17;his quarrel with Count Thorane,79;his travels in Italy,5----, Johann Wolfgang von, the poet, his family,25,28,32,52(seealso under several names);his birth and child-life,1;education at home,7,19,25,50,71,93,100;and the Lisbonearthquake terror,19;his legal studies and practice,21,119,308,389,407,410,492;attack of small-pox,25;religious instruction,29;the boy priest,31;early amusements,35;his story-telling,36,386;his personal appearance and dress,37,75,316,532,534;his playfellows,50;juvenile stoicism,49;his duel with Derones,75;early writings,70,85,217(see also underPoems, early;Goethe, his Works, &c.);his busy imagination,114,500;his studies in workshops,123;his memory,129;his ambition as a poet,134,201;his first love,141(seealso Gretchen);is declared "eccentric" as a youth,165;his melancholy,179,185,243,249,260,277,282,289,321,502,et seq.;at Leipzig University,203,269,299;love for Annette,236(seealso under Annette);his "confessions,"240,511;his jealousy and passion,241;affairs of the heart, &c.,243;his "reckless humour,"243,244;his religion, &c.,249,582,251(seealso under God, Religion, &c.);his love for Frederica,374,382(seealso under Frederica);his illness, &c.,282,289,291,293,298,321,437;his love for A. S. Münch, or A. Gerock,578;his study of alchemy,292,357;his travelsincognito,372,379;his conversational powers, &c.,386,500;and the young437;his mode of working,451,586,604;as the "confidant,"452;as the "wanderer,"452;his love for Charlotte Buff,471(seealso Charlotte);contemplates suicide,508,510;plans for settling in life,577;his love for Lili,591(seealso Lili);his politics,618;his Court life at Weimar,519Goethe, his Works, early work destroyed,239;collected works,587.Seealso underthe names of the several works, and underPoems,early; MSS., &c.----, Katharina Elisabeth (néeTextor), Goethe'smother,4,28,31,62,66,174,290,386,437,566,580,629,670Goetz von Berlichingen,320,356,441,453,455,470,496,500,513,466,524,620,629,671Golden Bull, Pope Innocent's,11,129,152Golden heart, Toa, &c. SeeRound my neck, &c.Goldsmith, Oliver,506;hisEdwin and Angelina,670;hisDeserted Village,474;hisVicar of Wakefield,368,375.Seealso underVicar of Wakefield.Good People's Court, the, Frankfort,15Görtz-Schlitz, J. E., Count von,561,633Gossip, the, and Count Thorane,80;the word,67,80Gotha,288Gothic Architecture and German,331,441.Seealso under Architecture and German.Götter, F. W.,464,469,474Gottfried's Chronicles,23Gotthard, Mont,647,650,679Göttingen,202; its university,21Göttingen Musen Almanach,466,628Gottsched, Q. C., and his influence,214,221,226,259,278,449Goué, A. S. von, Hanoverian attaché,462Grammar, early view of,200Gratitude,354Grave's woodcuts,8Gray,506Greek, authors,285; philosophers,185Gretchen,138,139,143,145,147,154,162,172,174,167,179,182,183,192,201,241Griesbach, J. J.,134,202----, Frau,290Grimm, painter,673----, Herr von,415Groening, of Bremen,284Groschlag, Baron von,150Grütli,647Günderode, President von,362Günther, Emperor,10----, the Poet,223,224,342Gustavus III., of Sweden,617Gymnasium, the, Frankfort.SeeAlbrecht, Dr.HABITS and Decoys in life,135Hackert, Philip, painter,673Hagedorn, F., poet,61,202,342----, von, of Dresden,277,342Hair-dressing,316,634Hakel, Baron von,56Halle, University of,212Haller, A. von, poet,61,216,228,234,342Hamann, J. G.,352,390,441,445Hamlet,506; reading,406Hanau, Count Reinhard von,361Hands, expression in,657Handwriting,296Hanseatic League, the,519Hanswurst (Jack-pudding),494,626Hanswurst's Wedding,626Happiness,474Hares, the three,59Harlequin and Hanswurst,494Harp-playing boy, the,437Harpsichords and pianos,97Haugwitz, Count,629,630Health, care of the,298Heart, affairs of the,244Hebrew, lessons in,101Heidelberg,684Heinecke,268Hendel, cake-baker, poem to him,257,259Herder, J. G. von,331,346,355,356,368,389,439,440,441,446,448,466,497;his essay on Shakespeare,428;his letters,357;his relations with Goethe,346,347;his sarcasms,350;and Jung,357Herman, Dr. C. G.,227,283Herrnhuters, the,117,444.Seealso under Sects.Hesitation,498Hess, A. P. von,440Hesse-Darmstadt, Caroline of,449,588,633Hexameters, Klopstock's, frighten a barber,63Heyducks, the,159Heyne, C. G.,202High on the ancient turret stands,541Himberg, bookseller,587Hirt, painter,17,69History,108Hoaxes,182Höchst,145Holstein-Eutin, Prince of,346Hölty,464Holy Land, the,105Homburg,189Homer,29,467,480; in prose,427Höpfner, L. J.,475,478,479Hoppe, Prof. J.,119,199Horace,221Horn, J. A.,198,258,284,438Horoscope, Goethe's,1Hotze, Dr.,643House-building at Frankfort,6Huber,269Hubertsberg, the Peace of,129Huisgen, Hofrath H. S.,132,133,134Human nature,298Humour on the stage,243Hutton, Ulrich von, a letter of,621ICES,67Idle people,137Illuminations at the coronation 1764,173Ilmenau, mines of,676"Image hunt," the,235Imaginary conversations,502Imperial Chamber, the, history of,455et seq.Incognito, travelling,371Indian fables,467Inns, and Inn life,271,275Inoculation,24Iphigenia,560Island of Falsenberg, the,23Israelitish tradition,109Italy, longings for,21; view of,651;proposed visit to,680,683,686,687JABACH'S Dwelling,544Jacob and Esau,112,114,115Jacobi, the brothers,542----, F. H.,545,546,548Jason and Medea,311Jaxthausen, Castle of,620Jealousy,241Jena, University of,212,676Jerusalem, K. W. von,234,478;his suicide,509,510,515Jesuits, expulsion of the,323Jews, the,114,115; in Frankfort,122;savageness of their religion,111.Seealso Israelites, &c.Joseph, Archduke of Austria.SeeJoseph II.Joseph II., Emperor, &c.,125,147,151,157,420,465;coronation of, 1764,165,169,178Jung, J. H., afterwards Stilling,317,548,592;and Herder,357Junker, painter,17,69,126KESTNER, J. C.,147Kielmansegge, Count C. A. von,462King of Thule, the,545Kirms,676Kissing and Forfeits,393Kleist,235Klettenberg, Fräulein von,290,293,445,534,552,566,568Klinger, F. M.,525Klingling, Prætor of Strasburg,324Klopstock, F. C.,61,115,229,238,343,345,448,450,454,464,466,570,624,633;hisMessiah,61,118;hisHermann's-Schlacht,465;hisRepublic of Letters,450Klotz,281Knebel, Capt. K. L.,41Knighthood, comic order of, at Wetzlar,463Knowledge and Faith,535Koch, Herr,412Koenig, von, poet,224"Königsberg Zeitung," the,446Köningstein,189Köningsthal,150Koppen,61Kotzebue, A. F. F. von.,676Kraus, G. M., painter,673,675Krebel, Hofrath,227,272Kreuchauf, Herr F. W.,269Krüger, hisDuke Michael,240Küssnacht,653LA CHAUSSÉE, Pierre de,71Langer, E. T.,285Language, origin of,350Laocoon, the,434,435Laroche family, the,485----, Frau von,484,488,509,540----, Maximiliane (afterwardsBrentano),509Latin, learning,20,200Laune des Verliebten, Die,241,299Lautensak, jeweller,124Lavater, J. C.,153,465,528,536,540,