Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer

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Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer

Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer (born 30 January 1719 in Wurzen; died 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.

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