bildungsroman

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Also Known As	Entwicklungsroman • Erziehungsroman

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Gottfried Keller, drawing by R. Leemann, 1842; in the Zentralbibliothek, Zürich

Gottfried Keller

Swiss author

Christoph Martin Wieland.

Christoph Martin Wieland

German poet

Young woman with glasses reading a book, student

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