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Apr 28, 2017 · We can only speculate as to what Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's self-analysis, cited above, might have revealed. By the same token we have no certitude as to what Goethe meant when he responded to Lessing's death in 1781 with the remark that we have lost much, much more than we know.
This problem would remain unsolved until 1880. In 1776, he married Eva König, who was then a widow, in Jork (near Hamburg). She died in 1778 after giving birth to a short-lived son. On 15 February 1781, Lessing, aged 52, died during a visit to the wine dealer Angott in Brunswick.
Apr 28, 2017 · With the Jews gone, Lessing has become a curiously absent presence in Germany, just as the Jews once had been. Against those critics who consider Lessing as a liability of an obsolete canon, others maintain the signal importance of Lessing as a rare champion of tolerance and freedom of thought.
- Willi Goetschel
- 2005
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his publication of H. S. Reimarus' radical assault on ...
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, H. B. Nisbet
- 2005
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the most eminent literary figure of the German Enlightenment and a writer of European significance. His range of interest as dramatist, poet, critic, philosopher, theologian, philologist and much else besides was comparable to that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose ideas he engaged.
German poet and critic; born Jan. 22, 1729, at Kamenz, Upper Lusatia; died Feb. 15, 1781, at Brunswick. Toleration and a striving after freedom of thought led him to condemn all positive religions in so far as they laid claim to absolute authority, and to recognize them merely as stages of historical development.
The Life and Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, From the German of Adolf Stahr. March 1867 Issue. Share. Saved Stories. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. By E. P. EVANS, P. D., Professor of...
