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Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer (30 January 1719, inWurzen – 7 July 1783, inHalberstadt) was a Germanfabulist.
His father of the same name was a jurist. The younger Lichtwer studiedlaw atLeipzig andWittenberg. His chief work is to be found in theVier Bücher Aesopischer Fabeln (Four books of fables in the manner ofAesop; 1748). There is a collection of hisSchriften (Writings; 1828) edited by Ernst Ludwig von Pott (Lichtwer's grandson) and Friedrich Cramer which contains a biography. The Austrian composerJoseph Haydn set several of his fables in his secular canons, or a capella songs (Hob. XXVIIb).
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