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noun - German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781)
noun - English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)
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| English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919) |
| German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781) |
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Lessing is a surname of Slavic origin, originally Lessigk meaning "woodman".* A German family of writers, artists, musicians and politicians who can be traced back to a Michil Lessigk mentioned in 1518 as being a linen weaver in Jahnsdorf near Chemnitz. * The family includes: * * Johann Gottfried Lessing (16931770) pastor primarus in Kamenz, well respected, published theologian, translator and father of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (17291781) and Karl Gotthelf Lessing (17401812). Johann Gottfried's father Theophilus Lessing (16471735) was mayor of Kamenz and Robert Schumann's (the composer and pianist 18101856) four-times great uncle, Johanne Sophie Susanna Lessing (17451818 daughter of Carl Heinrich Lessing 1713, a trumpeter) his grandmother. * Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (17291781), one of the most prominent philosophers of the Enlightenment era, recognised as the world's first dramaturg, Germany's first dramatist and comedy playwright, champion for religious tolerance, friend |