Eine Psychobiographie. Goethe was not only a child genius, a beloved poet, and an important politician throughout his life he also sometimes missed and suffered for it. Yet he had the special ability to accept mental anguish and to implement it for the further development of his own creativity.Since Goethes time psychology has made great progress, and especially neurobiology has made great discoveries about the nature of the human mind. Nevertheless, we have few documents that so deeply illustrate the development of creativity as Goethes letters and his works not to mention the detailed descriptions delivered by his family and