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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 22 January 1729, 1729
- Died
- 15 February 1781, 1781
- Place of birth
- Kamenz
- Place of death
- Brunswick
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Lessing
- Father
- Johann Gottfried Lessing
- Mother
- Justina Salome Lessing
- Spouse
- Eva König
- Genre
- drama fiction
- Field of work
- performing arts
- Occupation
- lyricist, philosopher, playwright, poet, librarian, theologian, dramaturge, literary critic, journalist, writer, critic, art historian
- Citizenship
- Electorate of Saxony
- Native language
- German
- Religion
- Christianity
- archives at
- Herzog August Library
- convicted of
- heresy
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Hamburg Biographies, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, BEIC Digital Library, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- has works in the collection
- Anne Frank House
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- notable work
- Miss Sara Sampson, Nathan the Wise, Emilia Galotti, Laokoon (Lessing)
- place of burial
- Brunswick
- related category
- Category:Works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Category:Things named after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- start of work period
- 1749
- topic's main category
- Category:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- work location
- Hamburg, Leipzig, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Wolfenbüttel
- writing language
- German
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