Short answers, pulled from the story.
The word angst entered English during the 19th century through translations of German and Scandinavian texts. It arrived alongside works by Søren Kierkegaard and Sigmund Freud, who used it as a technical term in psychiatry.
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard first applied the concept to human freedom between 1813 and 1855. His book The Concept of Anxiety described dread as the dizziness of standing before infinite possibilities.
Krzysztof Penderecki dedicated Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima as a sonic memorial. This work expresses collective trauma and deep-seated condition beyond religious belief systems.
Bob Dylan released Masters of War in 1963 expressing dread amid nuclear proliferation fears. Folk rock artists voiced melancholy and existential despair throughout the mid-20th century.
The Latin root for fear or panic differs significantly from this specific Germanic lineage. Earlier forms existed in Old High German as ange, tracing back to Proto-Indo-European roots meaning restraint.