# Cotta publishes West-östlicher Divan after Goethe’s Hafiz reading

Date: 1819

## The fact

In 1819 [Goethe](/people/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe) published West-östlicher [Divan](/people/shyam-divan), a German poetic cycle staged as conversation with Persian Hafiz (in Hammer’s translation).

## Context

Respectful literary use of an Islamic poet is a minority-respect path of medium confidence: it is not civic equality, and it sits beside the 1820s Jewish-hostility row without cancelling it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archive/museum/agency pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Goethe and Schiller Archive (https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/goethe-and-schiller-archive/; Klassik Stiftung Weimar).

## Significance

A Divan is not an emancipation edict. Do not pretify the civic record with a ghazal.

A Divan is not an emancipation edict. Do not pretify the civic record with a ghazal.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is protection-of-minority-rights. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: https://factrail.ai/people/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/goethe-and-schiller-archive/
- https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521662117

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/go-divan-1819