* Canopus in Argos, a series of space fiction by Doris Lessing

Its modern-day function was originated by the innovations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, an 18th-century German playwright, philosopher, and theorist about theatre.

* Plays of Lessing: Nathan the Wise and Minna von Barnhelm, translated by Ernest Bell.

* Selected prose works of G. E. Lessing, translated by E. C. Beasley, B.

* Minna von Barkhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

* Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian, 1910, includes The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

* Nathan the Wise, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

* Works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing at Projekt Gutenberg

* Works by Lessing at the Internet Archive

In 1773, Lessing published an epigram he had found in a manuscript during his work as a librarian ; it claimed to be a letter sent by Archimedes to Eratosthenes.

The same experience was described as early as 1767 by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in his comedy Minna von Barnhelm ( 3, 7 ): “ Mehr als Wachtmeister zu werden?

Philosopher of Jewish Enlightenment in Prussia ( Haskalah ), honoured by his friend Lessing in his drama as Nathan the Wise.

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

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

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 ).

The term " dramaturgy " was coined by the German dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

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.

Schiller, Herder, Lessing, Goethe, German Translation by Thomas Klandt.

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

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.

In addition to the seven fragments published by Lessing, a second portion of the work was issued in 1787 by C. A. E. Schmidt ( a pseudonym ), under the title Übrige noch ungedruckte Werke des Wolfenbüttelschen Fragmentisten, and a further portion by D. W. Klose in Christian Wilhelm Niedner's Zeitschrift für historische Theologie, 1850-52.

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.

The Los Angeles Times called Shikasta an " epic " and suspected that it may have influenced the Nobel committee when they referred to Lessing as an " epicist of the female experience ".

Subsequently this show of appropriated art was appropriated by San Francisco based artists Elliot Lessing and Gordon Winiemko ; the two artists created a " shadow " website, www. illegal-art. com ( the " Stay Free " show's site is www. illegal-art. org ) and reflecting their concerns about the simplistic binary implied by " illegal art ," they launched a show at the now defunct BUILD artspace, called " I Want a Mainstream.

Similar to Nathan the Wise and Saladin, whom Lessing makes meet over the chess-board ; they both shared a love for the game.

While Stade complemented Lessing on the book's satire, and her depictions of Zone 6, which he said " have the eerie beauty of ancient Gnostic texts ", he " disapprove " of the novel as a whole, but added, " that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy reading it ".

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 born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony.

In 1771 Lessing was initiated into Freemasonry in the lodge " Zu den drei Rosen " in Hamburg.

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

Lessing was a poet, philosopher and critic.

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

Lessing had recently produced the drama Die Juden, whose moral was that a Jew can possess nobility of character.

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.

The residence of Gotthold Lessing when he was librarian at the HAB

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.

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert ( July 4, 1715 – December 13, 1769 ) was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.

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

Abbt was a fervent admirer of Lessing and seconded his educational, prosaic style of writing.

His mother, Irene, was the sister of political activist Gottfried Lessing, who was married to the British writer Doris Lessing during his exile in Southern Rhodesia.

H. E. Lessing has shown by circumstantial evidence that the climate anomaly of 1816, Year Without a Summer, due to the eruption of Tambora that impaired transportation in Europe by crop failure and starvation of horses, was the cause of Drais ' invention of the velocipede.