lessing in English
noun
family name; Gotthold Ephraim (1729-1781), German philosopher and playwright (famous for his play "Nathan the Wise")
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1. …with both Lessing and Mendelssohn, Briefe, die neueste Litteratur betreffend (1761–66; “Letters on the Modern Literary Question”). He also edited the Allgemeine deutsche Bibliothek (1765–92), the organ of the “popular philosophers” who fought against authority in religion and what they conceived to be extravagance in literature.