Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

That lovable old German theoretician Gotthold Ephraim Lessing thought that painting was an art of spatial relationships and that the things depicted in it should have the good manners to stand still.

Even Mightier Than The Pen 2008

He had also become friends with the critic and playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and the writer and publisher Friedrich Nicolai, and begun an active publishing career.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

Also in Judenplatz is a statue of 18th-century Jewish writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who encouraged the leaders of his era to exhibit tolerance, albeit temporarily, towards Jews.

American Beat: An American Jew's Conversion 2007

"Judaism, Christianity, Islam", it said, in beautifully laid out typeface; "A classic play about religious tolerance, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, directed by Soren Oliver."

Dove's Eye View: 2007

Life and career born September 6 in Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau, Germany follows Rabbi Frankel to Berlin and strudies with the Maimonides scholar, Israel Samoscz becomes accountant for firm of silk manufacturer, Isaak Bernhard; begins lifelong friendship with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing publishes anonymously "Philosophical Dialogues," "On Sentiments," and (with Lessing) Pope, a Metaphysician! publishes anonymously Thoughts on Probability and a translation with critical evaluation of Rousseau's second

Moses Mendelssohn Dahlstrom, Daniel 2006

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; who, it will be remembered, sometimes diverted himself with the composition of light poetical pieces, such as his famous song, beginning "Gestern, Brüder, könnt ihr's glauben?"

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was made librarian to the Duke of Brunswick in that city.

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

The famous Gotthold Ephraim Lessing inaugurated a more positive study of Christianity as the religion of revelation.

The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith" 1862-1929 1911

But beside them stood Gotthold Ephraim Lessing who proved himself to be the most thoughtful of the reformers of poetry, in that he emphasized the divisions -- especially necessary for the stylistic development of

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892

Dr. Gumpertz, a young newspaper writer -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

Jewish Literature and Other Essays Gustav Karpeles 1878