„...durch Tausendkünstler schnell vertausendfacht“? Goethe und die Geldpolitik in Deutschland um 1800.

The article examines the attitudes of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe toward the monetary policies of his times, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The author surveys in particular how Goethe's assessment of paper money changed over time, specifically against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and their economic and financial effects. In this context, he also discusses Goethe's understanding of the causes of inflation, his dissatisfaction with Austrian fiscal and monetary policies during this time, and Goethe's advocacy against the introduction of paper money in the Duchy of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach in Germany, where he served as privy councilor, following his reading of an essay on the subject by Swiss economist Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi.