About Gottfried Wilhelm Becker
Lived 1778 – 1854 (aged 75). Gottfried Wilhelm Becker was a German linguist, physician, author, translator and writer.
Gottfried Wilhelm Becker (22 February 1778 – 17 January 1854) was a German medical doctor and writer.
Biography Becker was born and died in Leipzig. He translated some of Cooper's novels and (My Prisons) by Silvio Pellico. By his literary labors he accumulated $40,000. His son Karl Ferdinand, an organist and writer on musical topics, added a house worth $7,000 to this sum, and the whole was dedicated to the establishment of an educational and charitable institution for the blind in Leipzig.
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German physician and writer
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Gottfried Wilhelm Becker was born on 22 February 1778 in Leipzig.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Becker died on 17 January 1854 in Leipzig.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Becker was a linguist, physician, author, translator and writer.
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