1729 - 1781
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, 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.
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 254
1484 - 1566
HPI: 70.96
Rank: 255
1902 - 1998
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 256
1926 - 2016
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 257
1857 - 1943
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 258
1830 - 1914
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 259
1729 - 1781
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 260
620 BC - 560 BC
HPI: 70.71
Rank: 261
1883 - 1923
HPI: 70.68
Rank: 262
1221 - 1284
HPI: 70.64
Rank: 263
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 264
1707 - 1793
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 265
1911 - 1993
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 266
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.
1729 - 1796
HPI: 83.49
Rank: 1
1729 - 1797
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 2
1729 - 1781
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 3
1729 - 1765
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 4
1729 - 1786
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 5
1729 - 1799
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 6
1729 - 1811
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 7
1729 - 1785
HPI: 62.78
Rank: 8
1729 - 1796
HPI: 62.09
Rank: 9
1729 - 1783
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 10
1729 - 1796
HPI: 57.46
Rank: 11
1729 - 1802
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 12
1729 - 1781
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 1
1727 - 1781
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 2
1718 - 1781
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 3
1738 - 1781
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 4
1696 - 1781
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 5
1737 - 1781
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 6
1726 - 1781
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 7
1711 - 1781
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 8
1697 - 1781
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 9
1701 - 1781
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 10
1713 - 1781
HPI: 52.91
Rank: 11
1750 - 1781
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 12
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).
1884 - 1942
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 214
1361 - 1419
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 215
1829 - 1902
HPI: 70.76
Rank: 216
1957 - Present
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 217
1435 - 1494
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 218
1876 - 1956
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 219
1729 - 1781
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 220
1893 - 1973
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 221
1850 - 1932
HPI: 70.61
Rank: 222
1877 - 1946
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 223
1938 - 1988
HPI: 70.58
Rank: 224
1880 - 1938
HPI: 70.54
Rank: 225
1489 - 1525
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 226
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).
1917 - 1985
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 10
1772 - 1801
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 11
1770 - 1843
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 12
1891 - 1970
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 13
1785 - 1863
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 14
1948 - Present
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 15
1729 - 1781
HPI: 70.73
Rank: 16
1895 - 1998
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 17
1777 - 1811
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 18
1830 - 1914
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 19
1842 - 1912
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 20
770 - 840
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 21
1929 - 1995
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 22