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GELLERT, CHRISTIAN FURCHTEGOTT (1715-1769)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 559 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GELLERT, CHRISTIAN FURCHTEGOTT (1715-1769) ,
German
  poet, was born at
Hainichen
  in the Saxon Erzgebirge on the 4th of July 1715. After attending the famous school of St Afra in Meissen, he entered
Leipzig
  University in 1734 as a student of theology, and on completing his studies in r 739 was for two years a private tutor. Returning to
Leipzig
  in 1741 he contributed to the Bremer Beitrage, a periodical founded by former disciples of Johann Christoph
Gottsched
 , who had revolted from the pedantry of his school. Owing to shyness and weak
health
  Gellert gave up all
idea
  of entering the
ministry
 , and, establishing himself in 1745 as privatdocent in philosophy at the university of Leipzig, lectured on poetry,
rhetoric
  and literary style with much success. In 1751 he was appointed extrabrdinary professor of philosophy, a post which he held until his death at Leipzig on the 13th of December 1769.
The esteem and veneration in which Gellert was held by the students, and indeed by persons in all classes of society, wag unbounded, and yet due perhaps less to his unrivalled popularity as a lecturer and writer than to his personal
character
 . He was the noblest and most amiable of men, generous,
tender
 -hearted and of unaffected piety and humility. He wrote in order to


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