Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the de
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, by Anton Graff 1771
Wife Eva Lessing
House, Wolfenbüttel
Grave, Brunswick
Moses Mendelssohn
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Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jew
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
…Lessing, aged 52, died during a visit to the wine dealer Angott in Brunswick. Lessing was also famous for his friendship with Jewish-German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. A 2003 biography of Mendelssohn's grandson, Felix, describes their friendship as one of the most "illuminating metaphors [for] the clarion call of the…
Portrait by Anton Graff (1773)
Mendelssohn (in red coat), Lavater (at right) and Lessing (standing), in an imaginary portrait by the Jewish artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1856), Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Moses Mendelssohn's (reconstructed) grave in Berlin
Moses Mendelssohn's glasses, in the Jewish Museum, Berlin