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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Also known as Father of German Literature

German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)

OverviewAI-generated

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a male person from Germany. He was born on 22 January 1729 and died on 15 February 1781. His work period began in 1749. He is associated with genres including German audiobooks and spoken word.

His notable works include *Les Priapeia*, *Laokoon, oder Über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie*, *Gedichte, die glücklich machen*, *Emilīi︠a︡ Galotti, tragedīi︠a︡ v pi︠a︡ti di︠e︡ĭstvīi︠a︡kh*, and *拉奥孔*. He is similar to Thomas Mann, Friedrich Schiller, Sir Peter Ustinov, Reclam Hörbücher, and Wilhelm Hauff. His quotes include "Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe?", "Besserer Rat kommt über Nacht.", and "Und ein Vergnügen erwarten, ist auch ein Vergnügen."

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born: 22 January 1729
Died: 15 February 1781
Works: 1070

Top works

Les Priapeia
[G.E. Lessings] Trauerspiele
Laokoon, oder Über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie
Gedichte, die glücklich machen
拉奥孔

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1729-01-22
Active to: 1781-02-15

has german audiobooks

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 627
Total plays: 4,838

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable
· 1992 · cited 6,181x
Speech enhancement using a minimum-mean square error short-time spectral amplitude estimator
· 1984 · cited 2,664x
Estimating the Prevalence of Limb Loss in the United States: 2005 to 2050
· 2008 · cited 2,345x
A MICROCOLORIMETRIC METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF INORGANIC PHOSPHORUS
· 1953 · cited 1,963x
Three-Dimensional Folding and Functional Organization Principles of the Drosophila Genome
· 2012 · cited 1,887x

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Quotes

“Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe?”
“Denn zu einem großen Manne gehört beides: Kleinigkeiten als Kleinigkeiten, und wichtige Dinge als wichtige Dinge zu behandeln.”
“Besserer Rat kommt über Nacht.”
“Und ein Vergnügen erwarten, ist auch ein Vergnügen.”
“If no historical truth can be demonstrated, then nothing can be demonstrated by means of historical truths. That is: accidental truths of history can never become the proof of necessary truths of reason. [...] That, then, is the ugly, broad ditch which I cannot get across, however often and however earnestly I have tried to make the leap.”
“I, who ne'er Went for myself a begging, go a borrowing, And that for others. Borrowing's much the same As begging; just as lending upon usury Is much the same as thieving.”

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (/ˈlɛsɪŋ/; German: [ˈɡɔthɔlt ˈeːfʁa.ɪm ˈlɛsɪŋ] ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg in his role at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre. The word "dramaturgy" first appears in his work Hamburg Dramaturgy.

Life

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing