Possible Clues:

• German writer introducing German article about Old English
• The ego, strangely, of the German writer
• 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' author
• German poet, d. 1832
• Who wrote 'A true German can't stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines'
• German author (Faust)
• German author travels the old-fashioned way East
• Romantic-era writer
• Travel East with the poet and philosopher
• Author of Faust