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	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 – February 15, 1781), writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, is the most outstanding German representative of the Enlightenment era.
		Lessing was born in Kamenz, a little town in Saxony.
		In 1770 Lessing became a librarian at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.
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	GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING - LoveToKnow Article on GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After attending the Latin school of his native town, Gotthold was sent in 1741 to the famous school of St Afra at Meissen, where he made such rapid progress, especially in classics and mathematics, that, towards the end of his school career, he was described by the rector as a steed that needed double fodder.
		Lessing's third residence in Berlin was made memorable by the Briefe, die neueste Literatur betrejfend (1759-1765), a series of critical essayswritten in the form of letters to a wounded officeron the principal books that had appeared since the beginning of the Seven Years' War.
		Lessing also maintains that history reveals a definite law of progress, and that occasional retrogression may be necessary for the advance of the world towards its ultimate goal.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, one of the most important dramatists and aesthetic theorists in European literature, was born on 22 January 1729 as the third of twelve sons of Johann Gottfried and Justine Salome Lessing into a humble and deeply religious family in the small town of Kamenz near Dresden (Saxony).
		Lessing enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the autumn semester of 1746 to pursue his studies; the University of Leipzig was the most prestigious institution of higher learning in Saxony, located in a cosmopolitan city where most intellectuals of the time congregated.
		Lessing’s reform of the German theater resulted in the evolution of a national and democratic stage, which eventually was able to liberate itself from the aesthetic and political shackles of absolutism.
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	Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781)
		OTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING, the first of the truly German dramatists, was born in a Lutheran clergyman's family.
		Lessing was not only the first truly German playwright, but he is known, too, as the "father of German criticism." Notable among his critical works is the celebrated Hamburg Dramaturgy which should have added materially to its author's income.
		Lessing's literary activity continued with unimpaired mental vigor right up to the time of his sudden death while on a trip to Brunswick in 1781.
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	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
		Lessing was born in Camenz, a small Saxon town, where his father was a clergyman of scanty means and of a severe and stubborn nature.
		Lessing had ever contended that the stage might prove as a useful pulpet as the church, and in Nathan he strove to preach the universal brotherhood of mankind; its hero is a Jew of ideal and pure morality.
		Lessing understood the character and extent of his own power so well, even as a young man, that all his utterances have a stamp of certainty, which is as far as possible from egotism.
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	Lessing, biographical information
		Lessing was, in fact, not the first German writer to challenge this tradition, but it is fair to say that his play marks the decisive break with the classical French drama that still dominated the German stage.
		Lessing interpreted Aristotle's famous and much-discussed concept of tragic catharsis (purging) as meaning the emotional release that follows tension generated in spectators who witness tragic events; he concludes that the sensations evoked by pity and fear should afterward exert a moral influence on the audience by being transformed into virtuous action.
		Lessing's last work, Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts (1780; The Education of the Human Race), is a treatise that closely reflects the working of his mind and expresses his belief in the perfectibility of the human race.
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	Lessing, G. E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lessing's practical criticism, which brought the study of sources (both literary texts and examples from the "plastic" arts) and the interpretation of terms to a new level of precision, was designed to reach the broader public and incite critical debate concerning important literary, cultural, and political issues within and outside of academic circles.
		An Investigation" (1769) demonstrates, Lessing's criticism recognizes the historical chasm between the ancients and the moderns and reflects a heightened awareness of the practical consequences of this knowledge for the theory of taste, genre, and the historical context of language.
		Lessing's use of image, rhetorical devices, and allusions in his criticism to provoke the self-reflection and critical understanding of the reader not only fulfilled the performative function of activating a critical sensibility but also served a more global political purpose.
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		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) Biography of German dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, plus links to purchase all of his works currently in print.
		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) Kurzbiographie, Werke, im Projekt Gutenberg als Online-Text vorhandene Werke.
		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing A biography of the German dramatist and analysis of his theory of drama.
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	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
		Lessing had also criticized a translation of Horace, made by a protégé of Frederick II In the 1760s Lessing served as secretary to General Friedrich von Tauentzien in Breslau.
		Lessing knew that his hopes of becoming Royal Librarian in Berlin were not realistic, because he was not in favour with Fredrick.
		Lessing was left to take care for her four children, trying to be a good father to them.
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		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 - February 15, 1781), writer, philosopher, publicist and art thinker, is the most outstanding German representative of the Enlightenment era.
		She died in 1778 after giving birth to a son that did not live long either.
		Lessing was a man with varied interests as poet, philospher and critic.
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	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
		During several years Lessing was one of the contributors to Madame Neuber's Leipzig theater; but his dramatic principles, as they defined themselves, became more and more opposed both to those of Voltaire and the Leipzig school.
		In 1767 Lessing became associated with a group of actors in Hamburg, at which place he wrote the justly celebrated Hamburg Dramaturgy, in which he explained to the world the principles underlying the art of the theater.
		In 1772 Lessing wrote the tragedy Emilia Galotti, whose central situation is the same as that in the story of Virginia and Appius Claudius.
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	Bücher von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing bei Buechertipps24.de
		Rezension von Lessings Nathan der Weise" :Lessings dramatisches Gedicht in fünf Aufzügen, Nathan der Weise" ist ein Versuch der Aufklärung des deutschen Volkes bezüglich des Toleranzgedankens der drei monotheistischen Religionen.Durch den...
		Lessing beschreibt in seinem politischen Drama von Intrigen des höfischen Adels und der Ehre des Bürgertums, das unabdingbare tragische Schicksal der jungen, bürgerlichen Emilia, welche von dem Prinzen von Guastalla begehrt wird, der sie um jeden...
		Lessings wunderbarer Sprachfluss, der ungehemmt zur Geltung kommt wird von bezauberndender Handlung unterstützt, was sich sehr förderlich auf das Gesamtwerk auswirkt.
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	Comédie-Française - Gotthold Ephraïm Lessing
		Lessing est certainement l'écrivain allemand le plus célèbre et le plus controversé de son temps.
		Lessing écrit à partir de cette expérience sa Dramaturgie hambourgeoise dans laquelle il critique vivement le classicisme français de Racine, Corneille et Voltaire* ; son modèle est plus proche de Shakespeare.
		Lessing prône la création d'un théâtre national et bourgeois libre, rejoignant la conception d'un "théâtre des conditions" défendue par Diderot, pour l'éducation de ce peuple allemand qui n'a pas encore de nation.
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	Nathan The Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing eBook by BookRags
		In 1760 Lessing was tempted by scarcity of income to serve as a Government secretary at Breslau.
		In 1767 Lessing was called to aid an unsuccessful attempt to establish a National Theatre in Hamburg.
		Lessing gave his heart to a widow, Eva Konig, and was betrothed to her.
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	Introductory Note. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. 1909-14. Literary and Philosophical Essays. The Harvard Classics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This action brought upon Lessing the wrath of the orthodox German Protestants, led by J. Goeze, and in the battle that followed Lessing did his great work for the liberalizing of religious thought in Germany.
		As originally issued, the essay purported to be merely edited by Lessing; but there is no longer any doubt as to his having been its author.
		It is an admirable and characteristic expression of the serious and elevated spirit in which he dealt with matters that had then, as often, been degraded by the virulence of controversy.
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	Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
		The true liberator of German literature, however, was Gotthold Lessing, a dramatist and critic.
		A treatise by 18th-century German dramatist, critic, and philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of the Human Race closely reflects the working of the author's mind and expresses his belief in the perfectibility of the human race.
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	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (from German literature) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The major representative of the Enlightenment in German literature was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
		The novels and short stories of British writer Doris Lessing are largely concerned with people involved in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century.
		The semiautobiographical novel The Golden Notebook (1962), in which a woman writer attempts to come to terms with the life of her times through her art, is one of her most complex and her most...
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	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Biographie
		Gotthold Ephraims Mutter eine Predigertochter ohne geistige Bedeutung.
		Ihre Aufführung in Frankfurt an der Oder (Juli 1755) weckte Lessings Theaterleidenschaft, die er in Berline nicht befriedigen konnte: er ging kurzerhand nach Leizig, verkehrte hier mit Ewald von Kleist und ließ sich von einem reichen jungen Kaufmann als Begleiter für eine europäische Bildungsreise engagieren.
		Orthodoxe und Liberale griffen Lessing dieserhalb heftig an, und besonders mit seinem schärfsten und bedeutendsten Gegner, dem Hauptpastor Goeze, ließ sich Lessing in eine erbitterte Polemik ein.
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	Alibris: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
		Lessing invented the modern concept of the artistic medium and modernist assumptions of the uniqueness of the individual arts.
		Originally published in 1766, Lessing's seminal tract is a turning point in the study of Western art.
		Lessing, German writer and critic, combined the theory and practice of drama in much the same way as Shaw and Granville Barker.
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	Emilia Galotti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Lessing (1729 - 1781), which appeared in 1772, provides a classic example of German bürgerlichesTrauerspiel (bourgeois tragedy).
		Gotthold Lessing 's work of course comprises an attack againstthe nobility and its powers.
		Lessing depicts aristocrats as having unfair powers in society and as ruining the happiness of the emerging middleclass.
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	'LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM - LoveToKnow Article on 'LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		See G. Barnett Smith, The Life and Enterprises of Ferdinand de Lesseps (London, 1893); and Souvenirs de guarante ans, by Ferdinand de Lesseps (trans.
		LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (17291781), German critic and dramatist, was horn at Kamenz in Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz), Saxony, on the 22nd of January 5729.
		Among Lessings chief friends in Leipzig were C. Weisse (17 261804) the dramatist, and Christlob Mylius (17221754), who had made some name for himself as a journalist.
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	Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781)
		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wurde als Sohn eines Pfarrers am 22.
		Zur Zeit des Siebenjährigen Krieges war er fünf Jahre Gouvernementssekretär des Generals von Tauentzien in Breslau, was ihm später für die Umweltschilderung seiner Minna von Barnhelm zugute kam.
		Lessing, der Reformator der deutschen Literatur, fühlte sich zeitlebens aufs engste mit dem Theater verbunden und widmete ihm seine beste Schaffenskraft.
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		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (January 22, 1729 - February 15, 1781), writer, philosopher, publicist, and art thinker, is the most outstanding German representative of the Enlightenment era.With his plays and his theoretical writings he substantially influenced the development of German literature.
		Lessing was born in Kamenz, a little townin Saxony.
		She died in 1778 after giving birth to ashort-lived son.
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	Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Lessing differentiated between the poet as interpreter of time and the artist as interpreter of space; he found different aesthetic criteria applicable to each.
		His Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts [education of the human race] (1780) applied Enlightenment ideas of progress and evolution to religion.
		Lessing’s introduction in Germany of English literature, especially of Shakespeare, was an important contribution.
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	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
		German dramatist and playwright, and court librarian for the Duke of Brunswick at Wolfenbuttel.
		Lessing is also known as the "father of German criticism."
		Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, translated by me, in part in the London Freemason's Quarterly, 1854, and afterwards republished and completed in the London Freemason for 1872.
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	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Biografie rasscass
		Lessing wurde von seinem Vater nach Hause gerufen, da er befürchtete, sein Studium zu vernachlässigen.
		Lessing kam zurück nach Berlin und nahm seine schriftstellerische Arbeit wieder auf.
		Lessing nahm im September die Stelle als Bibliothekar an der berühmten herzoglichen Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel an.
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	Modern History Sourcebook: Gotthold Ephriam Lessing (1729-1781): The Education Of The Human Race, 1778
		And this was the sole true reason why they so often abandoned their one God, and expected to find the One, i.e., as they meant, the Mightiest, in some God or other, belonging to another people.
		Much less would it signify if an Israelite here and there directly and expressly denied the immortality of the soul and future recompense, on account of the law having no reference thereto.
		The denial of an individual, had it even been a Solomon, did not arrest the progress of the general reason, and was even in itself a proof that the nation had now come a great step nearer the truth.
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