Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Enlightenment thinker dramatist human literary critic philosopher writer

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was an 18th-century German writer, dramatist, and critic whose works helped shape modern German literature and championed Enlightenment ideals of reason, religious tolerance, and intellectual freedom.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Enlightenment thinker → dramatist → human → literary critic → philosopher → writer →
citizenship	Electorate of Saxony → Holy Roman Empire →
countryOfBirth	Electorate of Saxony →
countryOfDeath	Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg →
dateOfBirth	1729-01-22 →
dateOfDeath	1781-02-15 →
educatedAt	University of Leipzig NERFINISHED → University of Wittenberg →
era	18th century →
familyName	Lessing →
fieldOfWork	aesthetics → drama theory → literature → theology →
genre	aesthetic criticism → comedy → drama → theological writing → tragedy →
givenName	Ephraim → Gotthold →
influenced	Friedrich Schiller → German classical literature → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe →
influencedBy	Aristotle → Gottsched →
knownFor	advocacy of religious tolerance → defense of intellectual freedom → development of modern German drama →
movement	Enlightenment →
nativeLanguage	German →
notableWork	Emilia Galotti → Hamburgische Dramaturgie → Laokoon → Minna von Barnhelm → Nathan der Weise →
occupation	journalist → librarian → playwright → poet → theologian →
philosophicalSchool	Enlightenment rationalism →
placeOfBirth	Kamenz →
placeOfDeath	Braunschweig →
positionHeld	librarian at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel →
religion	Lutheranism →
spouse	Eva König →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Johann Christoph Gottsched → Johann Joachim Winckelmann →	influenced
Nathan the Wise →	author
German Enlightenment →	hasKeyFigure
Deutsche Aufklärung →	notableFigure