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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) German philosopher. Upon the approach of the French army in 1807–08, he delivered his famous "Reden an die deutsche Nation" (Addresses to the German Nation) in Berlin. These addresses are now seen as an inspiration to later German nationalism..
Ludwig Bechstein, Dreihundert Bildnisse und Lebensabrisse berühmter deutscher Männer (Leipzig: Georg Wigand's Verlag, 1890) 163.
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