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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 743,703 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is the 232nd most popular writer (up from 260th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 220th in 2019) and the 14th 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 232 out of 7,302. Before him are Prosper Mérimée, Dario Fo, Herman Melville, Snorri Sturluson, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Shams Tabrizi. After him are Chinghiz Aitmatov, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jaroslav Hašek, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frédéric Mistral, and Isabel Allende.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ranks 183 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Fröbel (1782), Olaf Scholz (1958), Walter Model (1891), Rudolf Höss (1901), Erich Raeder (1876), and Frederick William II of Prussia (1744). After him are Christian I of Denmark (1426), Hans Frank (1900), Baron d'Holbach (1723), Emmy Noether (1882), Augustus III of Poland (1696), and Anne of Cleves (1515).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ranks 14. Before him are Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), Eckhart Tolle (1948), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770). After him are Jacob Grimm (1785), Nelly Sachs (1891), Paul Heyse (1830), Heinrich von Kleist (1777), Ernst Jünger (1895), and Michael Ende (1929).

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