Deaths on December 13

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

Died on December 13, 1769

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and hymn-writer (b. 1715)

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (4 July 1715 – 13 December 1769) was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.

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