About Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
Lived 1719 – 1783 (aged 64). Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer was a German writer, jurist, poet lawyer and counsel.
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer (30 January 1719, in Wurzen – 7 July 1783, in Halberstadt) was a German fabulist.
Biography His father of the same name was a jurist. The younger Lichtwer studied law at Leipzig and Wittenberg. His chief work is to be found in the Vier Bücher Aesopischer Fabeln (Four books of fables in the manner of Aesop; 1748). There is a collection of his Schriften (Writings; 1828) edited by Ernst Ludwig von Pott (Lichtwer's grandson) and Friedrich Cramer which contains a biography. The Austrian composer Joseph Haydn set several of his fables in his secular canons, or a capella songs (Hob. XXVIIb).
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German writer
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Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer was born on 30 January 1719 in Wurzen.
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Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer died on 7 July 1783 in Halberstadt.
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Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer was a writer, jurist, poet lawyer and counsel.
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Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer was German.
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