1. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (IQ: 210)
Goethe was a German artist, critic, theatre director, statesman, scientist, novelist, playwright and poet. He is also considered as one of the most important German literary figure in the modern era. His literary works are often compared with works of Germany’s best classical composers and philosophers. Goethe has such a profound impact because he fully understood transition experienced by European people.
Goethe’s works could be described as epic, epigrammatic, rigorously formal and lushly emotional. He argued that romanticism was a sickness while classicism was merely a way of controlling art.