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    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (/ˈlɛsɪŋ/, German: [ˈɡɔthɔlt ˈʔeːfʁa.ɪm ˈlɛsɪŋ] ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist...
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  • Its modern-day function was originated by the innovations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, an 18th-century German playwright, philosopher, and theatre theorist...
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  • Johanne Sophie Susanna Lessing (1745–1818, daughter of Carl Heinrich Lessing 1713, a trumpeter) his grandmother. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), one of...
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    The town is known as the birthplace of the philosopher and poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Bruno Hauptmann, convicted kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby...
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    grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. His father, also named Karl Friedrich Lessing (1778–1848)...
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    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...
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  • Hamburg Dramaturgy (category Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
    Hamburgische Dramaturgie) is a highly influential work on drama by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, written between 1767 and 1769 when he worked as a dramaturg for...
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  • Miss Sara Sampson (category Plays by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
    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...
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    Emilia Galotti (category Plays by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
    pronunciation: [eˈmiːli̯a ɡaˈlɔti] ) is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick ("Braunschweig"...
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    menschliche Geschichtsschreiber betrachtet", in Karl Gotthelf Lessing (ed.), Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Theologischer Nachlass, Christian Friedrich Voß und Sohn...
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    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...
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    Nathan the Wise (category Plays by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
    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...
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  • appears in the eponymous work Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Lessing composed this collection of essays on the principles of drama...
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    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...
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    theological treatises, Greek mythology, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, and Friedrich Nietzsche. His first works of...
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  • [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...
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  • (1924–2001), German writer and painter Samuel Gotthold Lange (1711-1781), German poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729—1781), German writer, philosopher, dramatist...
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    thematic and formal aspects of tragicomedy, rather than plot. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing defined it as a mixture of emotions in which "seriousness stimulates...
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    The Lessing Monument (German: Lessing-Denkmal) is a monument to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Otto Lessing, installed at Tiergarten in Berlin, Germany. Germany...
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    and the German dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1780 led Jacobi to a protracted study of Baruch Spinoza's works. Lessing had avowed that he knew no...
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  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Kierkegaard's use of the term "leap" was in response to "Lessing's Ditch" which was discussed by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in...
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  • sensibility into account” (Leidner xiv). Antihero Jena Romanticism Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — his opinions influenced the theatre practitioners who began the...
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    Agustín Moreto y Cavana - Donna Diana 1887 - Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Countess Orsina 1887 - Götz von Berlichingen by Johann Wolfgang...
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    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...
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    The Lessing-Gymnasium (together with its twin school Goethe-Gymnasium) is the oldest Gymnasium in Frankfurt. Named after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it...
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    many contemporary poets evaporated as he developed an interest in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Christoph Martin Wieland. By this time, Goethe had already...
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  • 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...
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    Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani John Gay Christian Fürchtegott Gellert Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Ignacy Krasicki Dositej Obradović Félix María de Samaniego Tomás...
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    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...
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    brother of the German poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, had eleven other siblings and was the fourth youngest in the Lessing household. After attending the...
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