Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
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| Birth: | 4th July, 1715 |
| Death: | 13th December, 1769 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Poet, Professor |
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Christian Furchtegott Gellert was born in Hainichen, Saxony, Germany. He was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing. In 1751 he was appointed extraordinary professor of philosophy, a post which he held until his death at Leipzig. He thus became one of the most popular German authors, and some of his poems enjoyed a celebrity out of proportion to their literary value. This is more particularly true of his Fabeln und Erzählungen and of his Geistliche Oden und Lieder.
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