Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Wikipedia The owners of the new Hamburg National Theatre hired Lessing as the theatre's critic of plays and acting, an activity later known as dramaturgy (based on his own words), making Lessing the very first dramaturge
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - New World Encyclopedia Lessing was a poet, philosopher and critic, and was an outstanding representative of the German Enlightenment His theoretical and critical writings are remarkable for their often witty and ironic style and their unerring polemics
Lessing Society — Lessing Society The Lessing Society supports research on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), one of the key authors of the Enlightenment, and the wide range of his works, i e , his literary texts as well as his manifold contributions to literary criticism, art theory, theology, philosophy, philology and classics
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1771) | German History in Documents and Images In his dramatic poem Nathan the Wise (1779), Lessing presented his vision of a religious truth based on justice, reason, and charity Lessing modeled the title character on his lifelong friend Moses Mendelssohn, the preeminent German Jewish philosopher of the Enlightenment
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729–1781) - Encyclopedia. com Lessing's writings on art and literature do not constitute a serious analysis and critique of aesthetic experience But his work was directed toward liberating the artist from all the limiting rules and conventions of artificial formality
Lessing’s life and work in Wolfenbüttel (1770–1781) – HAB Lessing often described himself as a scholarly adventurer who never stayed in one place for long He led a restless life, and his moves in the Protestant east and north of Germany often seemed like acts of escape Lessing was plagued by financial worries, and twice he was forced to sell his library
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim - Enlightenment and Revolution Lessing was among the first Germans to succeed at supporting himself almost completely through his writing He embraced the principles of the Enlightenment wholeheartedly and advocated religious and intellectual tolerance
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729–81) - Routledge Encyclopedia of . . . Gotthold Ephraim Lessing occupies a central place in eighteenth-century European belles-lettres He was a significant religious and theological thinker whose work puzzled his contemporaries and still provokes debate
LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM - JewishEncyclopedia. com In short, Lessing raised Judaism in the esteem of the European nations not only by showing its close connection with Christianity, but also by demonstrating the importance of Mosaism in the general religious evolution of humanity