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He was a fellow of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries, and a member of the See also:Institute of See also:France and theraise the religious and moral See also:character of the See also:people, and to this end employed See also:language which; though at times prolix, was always correct and clear
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He thus became one of the most popular See also:German authors, and some of his poems enjoyed a celebrity out of proportion to their See also:literary value
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This is more particularly true of his Fabeln and Erzahlungen (1746-1748) and of his Geistliche Oden and Lieder (1757)
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The fables, for which he took La See also:Fontaine as his See also:model, are See also:simple and didactic
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The " spiritual songs," though in force and dignity they cannot compare with the older See also: A selection of Gellert's See also:poetry (with an excellent introduction) will be found in F . Muncker, Die See also:Bremer Beitrage (See also:Stuttgart, 1899) . A See also:translation by J . A . Murke, Gellert's Fables and other Poems (London, 1851) . For a further See also:account of Gellert's See also:life and See also:work see lives by J . A . See also:Cramer (Leipzig, 1774), H . Doring (See also:Greiz, 1833), and H . O . Nietschmann (2nd ed., See also:Halle, 19o1); also Gellerts Tagebuch aus dem Jahre 1761 (2nd ed., Leipzig, 1863) and Gellerts Briefwechsel mit Demoiselle See also:Lucius (Leipzig, 1823) . |
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This article on Sir William Gell contains information on the German author, Christian Fuerchtegott Gellert (1715-1769). Information on the works of C.F. Gellert are attributed to Gell in this article and this information is false.
Sir William Gell was knighted in 1814, not 1803. I have checked this with the London Gazette, and it is correctly reported in recent publications,including the Oxford Dictionary of |National Biography. The mistake arose very early, from a confusion between the Ionian Seas, where Gell travelled in 1q901-3 and Ionia, in Asia Minor, where he led a project for the #society Of Dilettanti in 18111-12, and for which the knighted was awarded.
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