Friedrich Georg Göthe

Hans Christian Göthe (fl. 1650s), a blacksmith of Kannawurf, Thuringia, married Sibylla Werner his grandfather Friedrich Georg Göthe (6 September 1657

Goethe's grandfather, Friedrich Georg Goethe [de] (1657–1730) moved from Thuringia in 1687 and changed the spelling of his surname (from Göthe to Goethe). In

In 1766, his father, Alexander Georg married Marie- Elisabeth Colomb, a well-educated woman and widow of Baron Friedrich Ernst von Holwede (1723–1765)

Two years previously, he had appointed Johann Friedrich von Eosander (also known as Eosander von Göthe) as the royal architect and sent him to study architectural

Munich and Heidelberg, where his influences were Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, Ludwig Häusser and Georg Gottfried Gervinus. In 1849 he obtained his habilitation