C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer (1719–1783)
Lichtwer, Magnus Gottfried (liċht’vãr). A German poet; born at Wurzen, Jan. 30, 1719; died at Halberstadt, July 6, 1783. His principal work is ‘Four Books of Æsopic Fables’ (1748). His didactic poem ‘The Right of Reason’ (1758), founded on the philosophy of Wolf, is of little value.