Das Göttliche (The Divine) is a hymn in the Weimar Classicism style written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was composed in 1783, and first appeared in 1785 without Goethe's consent in the publication On the Teachings of Spinoza[1][2] by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. The first version authorised by Goethe himself was published in 1789.[3]
Lyrics
"Das Göttliche" | "The Divine" |
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Edel sei der Mensch, |
Let man be noble, |
References
- ↑ Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1785), Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn (in German), Breslau: Gottlieb Löwe, pp. 2-4
- ↑ Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. "Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn". Die Digitalen Sammlungen der ULB Sachsen-Anhalt. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
- ↑ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. "Goethe's Schriften". Bayerische StaatsBibliothek digital.