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

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