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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"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing". Encyclopedia of World Biography. October 2018 – via encyclopedia.com. Ulrich Groetsch (2004). "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing"....
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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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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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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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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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Philotas (section Philotas by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
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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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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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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directed by Bastian Kraft 2009: Nathan the Wise (Nathan der Weise) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – Young Templar; directed by Nicolas Stemann 2010: Woyzeck Musical...
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theological treatises, Greek mythology, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, and Friedrich Nietzsche after his formal education...
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The Jews (play) (redirect from The Jews (Lessing))
[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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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...
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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 Félix María de Samaniego Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa...
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The Lessing Monument (German: Lessing-Denkmal) is a monument in the Neo-Baroque style, and dedicated to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Otto Lessing, installed...
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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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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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Judenplatz (section Lessing monument)
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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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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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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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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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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were present in the latter part of the 16th century. The plays of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and other Sturm...
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a classic of European literature. His subsequent influence on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich...
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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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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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the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included...
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authors include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Theodor Fontane. The collections of folk tales published by...
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Emilia Galotti (film) (category Films based on works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
East German film. It was released in 1958. It is based on the Gotthold Ephraim Lessing play of the same name. Karin Hübner: Emilia Galotti Hans-Peter...
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