Gottfried Wolfgang

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Gottfried Wolfgang is the troubled German student protagonist of Washington Irving’s Gothic short story “The Adventure of the German Student,” whose eerie romantic encounter in Revolutionary Paris leads to a macabre revelation.

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instanceOf fictional character ⓘ
literary character ⓘ
short story protagonist ⓘ
appearsIn The Adventure of the German Student ⓘ
associatedObject guillotine ⓘ
associatedTheme Gothic horror ⓘ
madness ⓘ
romantic obsession ⓘ
supernatural ambiguity ⓘ
characterTrait imaginative ⓘ
melancholic ⓘ
morbidly romantic ⓘ
solitary ⓘ
creator Washington Irving ⓘ
encounters apparently supernatural phenomena in Revolutionary Paris ⓘ
familyName Wolfgang ⓘ
fictionalUniverse The Adventure of the German Student ⓘ
fieldOfStudy German philosophy ⓘ
metaphysics ⓘ
mysticism ⓘ
firstPublicationContext Tales of a Traveller ⓘ
genreContext Gothic fiction ⓘ
givenName Gottfried ⓘ
hasBackstoryEvent became absorbed in visionary and mystical writings ⓘ
studied in Germany before traveling to Paris ⓘ
suffered from disordered imagination ⓘ
hasLoveInterest mysterious young woman executed by guillotine ⓘ
languageOfWork English ⓘ
literaryMovementContext American Romanticism ⓘ
mentalState prone to hallucinations ⓘ
troubled ⓘ
narrativeFunction unreliable focal character ⓘ
narrativeRole protagonist ⓘ
nationality German ⓘ
notableEvent discovers the woman dead beside him in the morning ⓘ
learns that the woman had been executed the previous day ⓘ
meets a mysterious young woman near the guillotine in Paris ⓘ
spends the night with the mysterious woman in his lodgings ⓘ
occupation student ⓘ
relatedWork Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving ⓘ
settingOfActivity Paris ⓘ
Reign of Terror ⓘ
symbolicallyRepresents the collision of reason and superstition ⓘ
the dangers of unrestrained imagination ⓘ
timePeriod French Revolution ⓘ
ultimateFate confined to a madhouse ⓘ

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