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Eckermann publishes Gespräche mit Goethe, converting unpaid attendance into a book

In 1836 Johann Peter Eckermann issued the first volume of Gespräche mit Goethe, the record of years of poorly paid attendance on the old minister-poet. Goethe is the speaker; Eckermann did the labour. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

Eckermann publishes Gespräche mit Goethe, converting unpaid attendance into a book

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In 1836 Johann Peter Eckermann issued the first volume of Gespräche mit Goethe, the record of years of poorly paid attendance on the old minister-poet. Goethe is the speaker; Eckermann did the labour.

Context

Conversations are a knowledge gain on another possible row.

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.

Why it matters

A famous table-talk book can still rest on underpaid attendance.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.2 · verified

    Dated act under Goethe as author, councillor, or later named subject. Printers, duke, and museums share labour.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactEckermann publishes Gespräche mit Goethe, converting unpaid attendance into a book
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.25 · Effect from 1 January 1836 · verified

    A famous table-talk book can still rest on underpaid attendance.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Goethe and Schiller ArchiveKlassik Stiftung Weimar · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. 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. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. contributed toFactEckermann publishes Gespräche mit Goethe, converting unpaid attendance into a book
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). Eckermann publishes Gespräche mit Goethe, converting unpaid attendance into a book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/go-eckermann-1836

https://factrail.ai/facts/go-eckermann-1836

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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