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German writer, dramaturge, linguist and literary theorist as well as professor of poetics, logic and metaphysics (1700–1766)

Also known as: Gottsched, Gottsched, Johann Christoph, J. C. Gottsched, J. Ch. Gottsched, Johann C. Gottsched, Johann Ch. Gottsched

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