He used 19th-century ideas about chemical interactions as motif for human relationships in his novel Elective Affinities, and in a more famous work he depicted suicide of the title character because he cannot have Lotte, a novel which helped inaugurate the Sturm und Drang movement.
This author wrote of a historical knight who lost his arm and had it replaced with an iron prosthetic in his drama Gotz von Berlichingen. He used 19th-century ideas about chemical interactions as motif for human relationships in his novel Elective Affinities, and in a more famous work he depicted suicide of the title character because he cannot have Lotte, a novel which helped inaugurate the Sturm und Drang movement. For 10 points, German author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and a two-part Faust.
This author wrote of a historical knight who lost his arm and had it replaced with an iron prosthetic in his drama Gotz von Berlichingen.
Johann Wolfgang von {Goethe}