According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

Lessing was also famous for his friendship with Jewish-German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

However, he also had many notable defenders, chief among them the novelist Doris Lessing.

It also drew the attention of the editors of the famous Literaturbriefe ( Literary Letters ), started by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

The core collection also includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Brown Widener, Joseph E. Widener and Chester Dale.

Aspects of Chopin's style also prefigure the intensely lyrical and experimental style of novelists such as Virginia Woolf and the unsentimental focus on female intellectual and emotional growth in the novels of Sigrid Undset and Doris Lessing.

Lessing is also the surname of:

Born was also the regional head of the Viennese Illuminati lodge, and was a sympathizer with the enlightenment ideas of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

The Bluecoat was also visited by performing artists as Stravinsky, Michael Nyman, Doris Lessing and the Last Poets.

Lessing also offered a thorough theoretic justification for his disregard of the old rules in his Hamburgische Dramaturgie.

Over the next decades, Adler would play in ( or, in some cases, merely produce ) numerous plays by Gordin, but also classics by Shakespeare, Schiller, Lessing ; Eugène Scribe's La Juive ; dramatizations of George du Maurier's Trilby and Alexandre Dumas, fils ' Camille ; and the works of modern playwrights such as Gorky, Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, Gerhart Hauptmann, Victor Hugo, Victorien Sardou, and Leonid Andreyev.

He has also interviewed a wide range of cultural figures including Dolly Parton, Doris Lessing, Penélope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, V. S. Naipaul, Roger Waters, Vikram Seth and Seamus Heaney.

Philhellenism also created a renewed interest in the artistic movement of Neoclassicism, which idealized 5th-century Classical Greek art and architecture., very much at second hand, through the writings of the first generation of art historians, like Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

See also GE Lessing in Zur Geschichte und Literatur ( Werke, ix.

The issue of " political stance " was also raised in response to Orhan Pamuk and Doris Lessing, prizewinners in 2006 and 2007, respectively.

Lessing also quotes an anonymous author: " It is by the failures and misfits of a civilisation that one can best judge its weaknesses.

The German dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing also adapted the story ; his play Philotas dates to 1759.

He also worked for private clients such as J. P. Morgan, Lessing Rosenwald, and Harry Elkins Widener.

Pettit lost a power struggle with his deputies ( Steve Lessing, Tom Tucker, and Joseph M. Gregory ) back on March 15 that year that caused him to relinquish its COO title, likely brought about after the three men found about Pettit's extramarital affairs, which violated Fuld's unwritten rules on marriage and social etiquette.

Either Gumperz or Hess ( it is not known which ) introduced Mendelssohn to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1754, who became one of his greatest friends.

The story goes that the first time Mendelssohn met Lessing, they played chess ; therefore, in Lessing's play Nathan the Wise Nathan and Saladin first meet during a game of chess.

Lessing found in Mendelssohn the realization of his dream.

In the same year there appeared in Danzig ( Gdańsk ) an anonymous satire, Pope a Metaphysician ( Pope ein Metaphysiker ), which turned out to be the joint work of Lessing and Mendelssohn.

Mendelssohn, Lavater and Lessing, in an imaginary portrait by the Jewish artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim ( 1856 ).

Bach's interest in all types of art led to influence from poets, playwrights and philosophers such as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

He was, moreover, a mentor to Herder and an admired influence on Goethe, Jacobi, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Lessing and Mendelssohn.

Hermann Hettner says that not only Leibniz, Voltaire and Diderot, but Lessing, Mendelssohn, Wieland and Herder, drew the most stimulating nutriment from Shaftesbury.

* Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 – 1781 ), one of the most prominent philosophers of the Enlightenment era, recognised as the world's first dramaturg, Germany's first dramatist and comedy playwright, champion for religious tolerance, friend of Moses Mendelssohn, critic for the Vossische Zeitung, translator and Shakespearean scholar.

His Briefe über den jetzigen Zustand der schönen Wissenschaften in Deutschland, published anonymously in 1755 and reprinted by G Ellinger in 1894, were directed against both Gottsched and Gottsched's Swiss opponents, Johann Jakob Bodmer and Johann Jakob Breitinger ; his enthusiasm for English literature won for him the friendship of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn.

Together with Lessing and Mendelssohn, Nicolai edited the famous Briefe, die neueste Literatur betreffend between 1759 and 1765 ; and from 1765 to 1792 he edited the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek.

right Johann Kaspar Lavater trying to convert Moses Mendelssohn to Christianity as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing looks on. It is important to understand that Kierkegaard felt a leap of faith was necessary in accepting Christianity due to the paradoxes that exist in Christianity.

Owing to the very low level of efficiency of the Halberstadt public schools, Israel attended mainly the Jewish religious school, in his leisure hours studying German literature and the works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Moses Mendelssohn on his own account.

First performance by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Prof. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ankara Radio, 1967 ; first public performance: Presidential Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Prof. Lessing, February 17, 1967.

Recalled to the public attention by Johann Jakob Bodmer and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it was only around the end of the 1800s that his works came to be a subject of academic investigation, and his position in German literature to be fully understood.

In 1840, one of his paintings attracted attention and procured him several orders, which enabled him to go to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Lessing.

In 1964, disillusioned with Communism, Lessing turned her attention to Sufism, an Islamic belief system, after reading The Sufis by Idries Shah.

Logau's Sinngedichte were edited in 1759 by G. E. Lessing and K. W. Ramler, who first drew attention to their merits ; a second edition appeared in 1791.

Lessing outlined the concept of the religious " Proof of Power ": How can miracles continue to be used as a base for Christianity when we have no proof of miracles?

Lessing is important as a literary critic for his work Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry.

Emilia Galotti by Lessing and Goethe's Faust were performed for the first time in Braunschweig.

* Less., the author abbreviation for Christian Friedrich Lessing ( 1809-1862 ), a German botanist

Lessing soon became a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing right through the century, and won the nobel prize for literature in 2007.

Michaelis, he was compensated for this by the esteem of Frederick the Great, of Lessing, Carsten Niebuhr, and many foreign scholars.

Reimarus ' philosophical position is essentially that of Christian Wolff, but he is best known for his Apologie as excerpted by Lessing in what became known as the Wolfenbüttel Fragmente.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Doris Lessing, Under My Skin

It was read with intense interest by Lessing, who found in the earliest of Winckelmann's works the starting-point for his Laocoon, and by Herder, Goethe and Kant.

* The plot of " A Home for the Highland Cattle ", a short story by Doris Lessing hinges on whether a painting of cattle can be accepted in place of actual cattle for " lobola ", bride price in a southern African setting.

But, in 1949 — after objections by U. S. Congressmen over the appropriateness of a government body awarding prizes in fine arts and literature to individuals who might harbor dissident views towards the U. S. ( re: Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize ) — the Library of Congress discontinued awarding medals of any kind, including ( i ) the Bollingen Prize, the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Medal for " eminent services to chamber music, and ( iii ) three prizes endowed by Lessing Rosenwald in connection with an annual national exhibition of prints.

In presenting the quest for truths as process rather than results, Holtorf quoted Gotthold Lessing ( Eine Duplik, 1778 ):

Lessing wrote an afterword for a UK edition.

* The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Philip Glass and Doris Lessing, 1988

On 10 March 1861, Titu Maiorescu held a lecture ( Die alte französische Tragödie und die Wagnersche Musik — „ The Old French Tragedy and Wagner's Music ”) in Berlin for the benefit of the monument of Lessing from Kamenz, which he repeated on 12 April in Paris, at the „ Cercle des sociétés savantes “ ( Circle of Academic Societies ) and later renewed in the form of a communication, on 27 April in Berlin, at the Philosophy Society.

Examples for a Slavic root comprise ' Lessing ', which sounds German but was derived from the Slavic expression for " forest settler ", and " Kafka ", which in Czech means " jackdaw ".

In the early 1970s Lessing began writing " inner space " fiction, which included the novels Briefing for a Descent into Hell ( 1971 ) and Memoirs of a Survivor ( 1974 ).

Shikasta represented a major shift of focus for Lessing, influenced by spiritual and mystical themes in Sufism.

Further criticism of the Canopus series followed, which included this comment by New York Times critic John Leonard: " ne of the many sins for which the 20th century will be held accountable is that it has discouraged Mrs. Lessing ... She now propagandizes on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz.

Kazinczy, known for possessing great beauty of style, was inspired greatly by the masterpieces of Lessing, Goethe, Wieland, Klopstock, Ossian, La Rochefoucauld, Marmontel, Molière, Metastasio, Shakespeare, Sterne, Cicero, Sallust, Anacreon, and many others.