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Family residence
The Goethe House in the old town of Frankfurt am Main was the family residence of Goethe, especially Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, until 1795. Johann Wolfgang was born here in 1749. His father, Johann Caspar Goethe, was a lawyer. His mother, Katherine Elisabeth Textor, was the daughter of the mayor (Bürgermeister) of Frankfurt. Johann Wolfgang lived here, along with his sister Cornelia, until 1765. In 1765 at the age of sixteen, he moved to Leipzig to study law. After that he returned sporadically.
