Cornelia Schlosser. Cornelia around 1770. Drawing by Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern. Cornelia Friederica Christiana Schlosser (née Goethe; 7 December 1750 – 8 June 1777) was the sister and only sibling of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who survived to adulthood.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe is probably Franfurts most famous son and is reveered in this city. Born in Frankfurt in 1749 his famous book Poetry and Truth outlines his early years in this city . A man of many talents ,a poet,artist,biologist,physicist there are many tributes to this man including Goethe House and this beautiful statue.Goethe and World Literature. Trans. C. A. M. Sym. London: Routledge, 1949. 35). 2 (1825 Jan. 10) Goethe's secretary and disciple, Johann Peter Eckermann, records him as remarking to a young Englishman: "It is part of the nature of the German to respect everything foreign for its own sake and to adapt himself to foreign idiosyncracies. This and the