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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing   Listen
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

noun
1.
German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781).  Synonym: Lessing.





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"Gotthold ephraim lessing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born at Camenz in Lausitz, January 22, 1729, and died in Brunswick, February 15, 1781. He was a thorough-going man who, when he destroyed something old in a battle, at the same time always created something new and better. "He was," says a German author, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke


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