Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (/ˈlɛsɪŋ/; German: [ˈɡɔthɔlt ˈʔeːfʁa.ɪm ˈlɛsɪŋ] ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist...

"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing". Encyclopedia of World Biography. October 2018 – via encyclopedia.com. Ulrich Groetsch (2004). "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing"....

Johanne Sophie Susanna Lessing (1745–1818, daughter of Carl Heinrich Lessing 1713, a trumpeter) his grandmother. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), one of...

appears in the eponymous work Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Lessing composed this collection of essays on the principles of drama...

The town is known as the birthplace of the philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Bruno Hauptmann, convicted kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby...

Philotas is played by Rubén Rojo. The German dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing also adapted the story; his play Philotas dates to 1759. It was...

Miß Sara Sampson) is a play by the Enlightenment philosopher, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Written in 1755 while the author was living in Potsdam, it is...

1729) 1690 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (died 1743) 1729 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and author (died 1781) 1733 – Philip Carteret...

grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Karl Friedrich Lessing was born on 15 February...

thematic and formal aspects of tragicomedy, rather than plot. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing defined it as a mixture of emotions in which "seriousness stimulates...

The Lessing Monument (German: Lessing-Denkmal) is a monument in the Neo-Baroque style, and dedicated to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Otto Lessing, installed...

theological treatises, Greek mythology, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, and Friedrich Nietzsche after his formal education...

Victoria of Spain, Queen consort of Portugal (b. 1718) February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author, philosopher (b. 1729) February 23 – George Taylor...

brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). Lessing was a botanical authority on...

directed by Bastian Kraft 2009: Nathan the Wise (Nathan der Weise) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – Young Templar; directed by Nicolas Stemann 2010: Woyzeck Musical...

from a given set of restrictions. The problem was discovered by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in a Greek manuscript containing a poem of forty-four lines, in...

relating to Jewish history. One of these sculptures is a statue of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. The other is a memorial to Austrian Holocaust Victims, a project...

[diː ˈjuːdn̩] ; English: The Jews) is German-language play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Written in 1749 in Berlin it was staged 1754. Like the same author's...

sculptor (born 1684) 1772 – Mitromaras, Greek rebel and pirate 1781 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher, author, and critic (born 1729) 1818 – Frederick...

is a play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing from 1779. It is a fervent plea for religious tolerance. It was never performed during Lessing's lifetime and was...

many contemporary poets evaporated as he developed an interest in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Christoph Martin Wieland. By this time, Goethe had already...

Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797) January 22 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781) February 26 – Anders Chydenius...

painting by El Greco Laocoön (Lessing) [de]: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Laocoön, William Blake's last illuminated...

menschliche Geschichtsschreiber betrachtet", in Karl Gotthelf Lessing (ed.), Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Theologischer Nachlass, Christian Friedrich Voß und Sohn...

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani John Gay Christian Fürchtegott Gellert Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Ignacy Krasicki Félix María de Samaniego Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa...

theory of painting. New York: Norton. Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1874). Laocoon. Translated from the Text of Lessing, with Preface and Notes, by Sir R. Phillimore...

authors include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Theodor Fontane. The collections of folk tales published by...

someone else's pain") in a poem by the same title. In a version by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, a writer of the German Enlightenment, the incident prompts Cupid...

the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included...

a classic of European literature. His subsequent influence on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich...