Mount Goethe is a summit in
Fresno County, California
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, in the
United States
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.
With an elevation of , Mount Goethe is the 96th highest summit in the state of California.
It was named after the German writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...
, the author of
''Faust''.
Mount Goethe was first climbed in 1933 by
David Brower
David Ross Brower ( ; July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies (1997), Friends of the Earth (1969), Ear ...
and George Rockwood.
See also
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Goethe Glacier
References
External links
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Mountains of Fresno County, California
Mountains of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mountains of Northern California
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