Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
German poet
- Lived
- 1715–1769
- Country
- Electorate of Saxony
Updated September 2026
About Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
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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