Ælfræd Baldwin von Raginald

((Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe))

Ælfræd Baldwin von Raginald was a Gilnean writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, and more than 10,000 letters written by him are extant, as are nearly 3,000 drawings.

A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of the Eastern Woods, Gottfried Johnathan in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November of 1775 following the success of his first novel, The woes of Young Theodore. He was an early participant in the "storm and crash" literary movement, named for a play by his childhood friend Harold Rilke. During his first ten years in Stormglen,  Raginald served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University nearby. He also contributed to the planning of Stormglen's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace.

After returning from a tour of Arathor in 580 K.C, Raginald published his first major work of a scientific nature, the Metamorphosis of Plants. In 583 K.C he was charged with managing the theatre at Weimar, and in 585 K.C he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Danning Harnbrew, whose plays he premiered until Hardbrew's death in 596 K.C. During this period Raginald published his second novel, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the verse epic Hermann and Dorothea, and, in 599 K.C, the first part of his most celebrated drama, Faust. His conversations and various common undertakings throughout the 590s with a number of writers have, in later years, been collectively termed Stormglen Classicism.