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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

1729 - 1781

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (, German: [ˈɡɔthɔlt ˈʔeːfʁa.ɪm ˈlɛsɪŋ] ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing has received more than 690,909 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is the 260th most popular writer (down from 225th in 2019), the 220th most popular biography from Germany (down from 178th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Writer.

Lessing is most famous for his play "Nathan the Wise" which is about a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew who live in Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. The Muslim and the Christian are friends, but the Jew is a traitor.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ranks 260 out of 5,755. Before him are Isabel Allende, Bartolomé de las Casas, Halldór Laxness, Dario Fo, Henrik Pontoppidan, and Frédéric Mistral. After him are Alcaeus of Mytilene, Jaroslav Hašek, Alfonso X of Castile, Henry Miller, Carlo Goldoni, and William Golding.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ranks 3. Before him are Catherine the Great and Edmund Burke. After him are Louis, Dauphin of France, Moses Mendelssohn, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Antonio Soler, Johann Daniel Titius, and Giuseppe Sarti. Among people deceased in 1781, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ranks 1. After him are Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Mariana Victoria of Spain, Túpac Amaru II, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Josef Mysliveček, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ablai Khan, Faustina Bordoni, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, John Needham, and Túpac Katari.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ranks 220 out of 6,142. Before him are Anton Drexler (1884), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Levi Strauss (1829), Hans Zimmer (1957), Hans Memling (1435), and Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876). After him are Walter Ulbricht (1893), Eduard Bernstein (1850), Wilhelm Frick (1877), Nico (1938), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), and Thomas Müntzer (1489).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ranks 16. Before him are Heinrich Böll (1917), Novalis (1772), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Nelly Sachs (1891), Jacob Grimm (1785), and Eckhart Tolle (1948). After him are Ernst Jünger (1895), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Paul Heyse (1830), Karl May (1842), Einhard (770), and Michael Ende (1929).

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