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Salomon Gessner
(1730-1788)
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LOC:    Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788
LBT ID: SoGessn1788    VIAF ID: 19765806    LOC ID: n50016527		B/BAP:   1730-04-01
DIED:   1788-03-02
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Swiss poet whose Idyllen (1756) influenced Southey and other English writers; he was also the author of a prose epic, Der Tod Abels (1758) frequently reprinted in the translation by Mary Collyer (1761).
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