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Happy the man who knows his duties!Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.Christian Furchtegott Gellert
4 Quotes & Sayings By Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Christian Furchtegott Gellert was the son of German-Jewish immigrants and was born in New York City in 1838. He was educated at the City University of New York and began writing at an early age. His first work, "The Road to Life," which he wrote when he was fifteen, won him the New York State prize for literature. In later years, he published several books on higher mathematics, poetry and other subjects
He died in New York in 1923.