@article{10.18756/jfg.2009.9, title = {{Goethe und die Evolution }}, shorttitle = {{Goethe und die Evolution }}, author = {Schad, Wolfgang}, journal = {Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus}, year = {2009}, volume = {2009}, pages = {9--20}, url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/jfg.2009.9}, doi = {10.18756/jfg.2009.9}, issn = {Print :1866-4830 Online : 2750-2341 }, language = {de}, abstract = {}, annote = {Goethe and evolutionDuring the 17th and 18th centuries evolution literally meant unwrapping what was already there Goethe and Darwin therefore avoided this term preferring to use metamorphosis or desccnt It was Herbert Spencer who first used the term in its modern sense There upon however Goethe was a complete evolutionist as confirmed by many hitherto overlooked statements by him Goethe summarised in the development of his Homunculus all the evolutionary theories to be found in his time} }