Fables and Tales - Guuwa and Stories

…He remained single due to his poor health, but he was able to associate with people from all walks of life, and was revered as a teacher of his time because of his sentimental, pious, and gentle personality. In 18th-century Germany, he wrote two volumes of Fables and Tales (1746-48), which were the second most widely read works after the Bible, as well as Moral Poems and Tales (1754) and Hymns and Odes (1757). With his plays The False Believer (1745), The Lottery (1746), and The Kind Sisters (1747), he established the French “serious comedy” in Germany and contributed to the establishment of realistic “civil drama.” …

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…病弱のため独身をとおしたが，あらゆる階層と交わり，感傷的ながら敬虔･温厚な人柄により時代の師表と仰がれた。18世紀ドイツでは聖書に次いでひろく読まれた《寓話と物語》2部(1746‐48)のほかに《教訓詩と物語》(1754)，《聖歌と頌歌》(1757)。戯曲《えせ信女》(1745)，《宝くじ》(1746)，《やさしい姉妹》(1747)によりフランスの〈まじめな喜劇〉をドイツに定着させ，写実的な〈市民劇〉の成立に貢献した。…

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