Classical Weimar, Germany
During the Classical Period of Weimar, at the end of the 18th and beginning of 19th centuries, the German cultural leading figures, in particular the writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), the dramatist Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), the philosopher and theologian Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) and the poet Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813), lived and worked in Weimar.
A few decades earlier, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) lived and worked in Weimar for several years; a few decades later the composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) resided in Weimar as well.