Historical clue formulations

• One of Ralph Waldo Emerson's six "Representative Men" — 2026-09-06
• "Faust" playwright — 2022-09-09
• Author who popularized the demon Mephistopheles — 2020-09-12
• Author of "Faust" — 2019-03-19
• German author who wrote "Faust" — 2016-07-04
• See 45-Across — 2012-08-22
• "The Sorrows of Young Werther" author — 2012-04-20
• Who wrote "A true German can't stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines" — 2012-01-08
• "Roman Elegies" author — 2001-01-25
• "Faust" dramatist — 1997-01-13
• German poet — 1995-09-13