Who is the great comparatist whose interests were in the unification of Germany into a nation-state He believed all great languages were poetic at their root and he spent a good deal of his energies i

The great comparatist who had an interest in the unification of Germany into a nation-state and believed all great languages were poetic at their root is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He dedicated a significant portion of his work to proving German as a language with poetic capabilities.