Christian Fürchtegott Gellert was a German poet, novelist, and popular moralistic writer, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.
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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1715 to 1769 · aged 54
Written about in
29 languages
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