Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: His Life, Works, and Thought

by Hugh Barr H Nisbet and Hugh Bar Nisbet

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) is the most eminent literary figure of the German Enlightenment and a writer of European significance. His range of interest as dramatist, poet, critic, philosopher, theologian, philologist and much else besides was comparable to that of Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, with all of whose ideas he engaged. He contributed decisively to the emergence of German as a literary language and was the founder of modern German...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199679479
• ISBN13: 9780199679478
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 750 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"