Johann Christian Schuchardt (5 May 1799,

Buttstädt Buttstädt is a municipality in the district of Sömmerda, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 16 km northeast of Weimar. The former municipalities Ellersleben, Eßleben-Teutleben, Großbrembach, Guthmannshausen, Hardisleben, Klein ...

- 10 August 1870,

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) was a German jurist, graphic artist, art historian and art critic. He served as

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last private secretary.

Life and work

He was the youngest son of Johann Abraham Schuchardt, a tailor. At the age of thirteen, he attended the

Weimar Princely Free Drawing School The Weimar Princely Free Drawing School (german: Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule Weimar) was an art and literature educational establishment. It was set up in 1776 in Weimar by the scholar and ducal private-secretary Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747� ...

. From 1820 to 1824, apparently seeking a more secure source of income, he studied law at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

. Upon graduating, he found a position as an Assessor with the government of the Grand Duchy of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. There, he worked in a department devoted to science and art that was overseen by Goethe. In 1825, upon the recommendation of Johann Heinrich Meyer, Director of the drawing school, he was appointed Secretary and Supervisor of the Grand Duchy's graphic collections. That same year, he became one of Goethe's private secretaries. The final version of '' Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren'' was dictated to him. Research trips took him to

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and

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. When Goethe died, in 1832, Schuchardt became the manager of his art collection. In 1848 and 1849, he brought out the three volumes of ''Goethe’s Kunstsammlungen'', which has come to be known as the "Schuchardt-Katalog", published by

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in Jena. During the 1850s, he served as the Curator of the Grand Ducal art collections. From 1861 to 1868, he was the Director of the Drawing School.

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