writer, childhood friend of Lessing's , was born in Dresden, attended the Meissen Princes' School (1741–1746) with Lessing, then studied in Leipzig and made numerous feature articles in prose and verse for Christlob Mylius' "physical weekly" "The naturalist" (1747 f.). Ossenfelder left the Order of Litterates early and was lost. We only know that he became court and legal secretary in his hometown, later to Frankfurt a. M. moved and died there on May 6, 1801. In 1771, he published the “Poems of a Bauers-Son, who had previously studied in Leipzig” (Gottlieb Fuchs) with a preface.
