As Lessing says it: " That, then, is the ugly great ditch which I cannot cross, however often and however earnestly I have tried to make that leap.

** Theodor Lessing is assassinated in Marienbad ( Mariánské Lázně ), Czechoslovakia.

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

is: Doris Lessing

In addition, “ he is often mentioned by writers like Montaigne and Lessing ... but he made no major contribution to intellectual history, and by the nineteenth century he seemed to be ... rather little read and rarely edited ” ( Gwynn, 140-1 ).

This insight was formulated early by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as " not every critic is a genius, but every genius is born a critic ... genius has the proof of all rules within itself.

Immigrant Doris Lessing ( 1919-) from Southern Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ), published her first novel The Grass is Singing in 1950, after immigrating to England.

The SC idea that an advanced civilisation should covertly help those less advanced is similar to the ideas and actions of Progressors in the Noon Universe of Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, as well as the agents of Canopus in the Shikasta novels of Doris Lessing.

After Reimarus ' death, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing published parts of this work as “ Fragments by an Anonymous Writer ” in his Zur Geschichte und Literatur in 1774-1778, giving rise to what is known as the Fragmentenstreit.

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.

* The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing.

Emilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 – 1781 ), which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick (" Braunschweig " in German ).

Later dissenting theorists, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, held that this focus on allegory was faulty and based on a wrong analogy between the plastic arts and poetry rooted in the Horatian dictum ut pictura poesis (" as is painting so is poetry ").

The Fifth Child is a novel by the British writer Doris Lessing, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988, and since translated into a number of languages.

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta ( often shortened to Shikasta ) is a 1979 science fiction novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series.

Shikasta draws on the Old Testament and is influenced by spiritual and mystical themes in Sufism, an Islamic belief system which Lessing had taken an interest in in the mid-1960s.

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.

" Lessing replied by saying: " What they didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

In the book Lessing does not state explicitly that the planet Shikasta is Earth, but many critics believe that its similarities to Earth's history make it clear that Shikasta is Earth as seen by the Canopeans.

From the time in Kassel on, Forster was in active correspondence with important figures of the Enlightenment, including Lessing, Herder, Wieland and Goethe.

During his time there, Berlin was a rich artistic environment, where Bach mixed with many accomplished musicians, including several notable former students of his father, and important literary figures, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, with whom the composer would become close friends.

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.

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.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 22 January 172915 February 1781 ) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era.

Lessing was a poet, philosopher and critic.

* 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.

Lessing opens the Laocoön ( 1766 ) by observing that " the first who compared painting with poetry &# 91 ; Simonides &# 93 ; was a man of fine feeling ," though, Lessing makes it clear, not a critic or philosopher.

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

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

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 also brought Mendelssohn to public attention for the first time: Mendelssohn had written an essay attacking Germans ' neglect of their native philosophers ( principally Gottfried Leibniz ), and lent the manuscript to Lessing.

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

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

* 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.

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.