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.
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. Painting by Anton Graff
C. F. Gellerts sämmtliche Schriften. 1 (1775)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christi
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
…free themselves from what were seen as the conventional trammels of such pedants, and began a revolution which was finally consummated by Schiller and Goethe. Karl Philipp Moritz, in the context of his travels in England in 1782, remarked: "Among us Germans ... I can think of no poet's name beyond Gellert's…
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828
Goethe's birthplace in Frankfurt (Großer Hirschgraben)
Goethe, age 38, painted by Angelica Kauffman, 1787
Goethe, by Luise Seidler (Weimar 1811)