What is Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?
[[File:Gotthold Lessing.jpg|thumb|Gotthold E. Lessing in 1771]]'''Gotthold Ephraim Lessing''' (22 January 1729 in [[Kamenz]] ([[Saxony]]) &ndash; 15 February 1781 in [[Braunschweig]]) was a [[Germany|German]] [[poet]] and [[philosopher]] in the time of the [[Age of Enlightenment|enlightenment]]. ==Life== Lessing was one of twelve children. His father was a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[priest]]. He went to [[school]] in Kamenz and got a [[stipendium]] for the Higher School in [[Meißen]]. From 1746 to 1748, he studied [[medicine]] and [[theology]] in [[Leipzig]]. In [[1750]], he moved to [[Berlin]], where he met [[Voltaire]]. In 1752 he got the Magister (Master) degree from the [[university]] in [[Wittenberg]]. He moved back to Leipzig in 1755, but returned later to Berlin. He traveled around in [[Europe]] and studied. He worked as a [[reporter]]. From 1760 to 1765, he worked as [[secretary]] for a [[General officer|general]] in ''Breslau'' (today: [[Wroclaw]]). Later he worked at the [[theater]] and became a [[librarian]]. Lessing got [[marriage|married]] in 1776. But 1778 his wife died. In 1781, Lessing died. == Works == {| |- |width=40|1747||''Damon oder die wahre Freundschaft'' (Damon, or true friendship) |- |1748||Der junge Gelehrte (The young savant) |- |&nbsp;||Der Misogyn |- |&nbsp;||Die alte Jungfer (the old virgin) |- |1749||Die Juden (The Jews) |- |&nbsp;||Der Freigeist (The free spirit) |- |1750||Der Schatz (The Treasure) |- |1755||Miss Sara Sampson |- |1759||Fabeln (3 Bücher) (Fables, 3 books) |- |&nbsp;||Faust (Fragment) (Faust, a frament) |- |&nbsp;||Philotas |- |1766||Laokoon oder Über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie |- |1767||Minna von Barnhelm |- |&nbsp;||Hamburgische Dramaturgie (1767-1769) |- |1772||Emilia Galotti |- |1777||Das Testament Johannis |- |&nbsp;||Über den Beweis des Geistes und der Kraft |- |1778||Anti-Goeze |- |1779||Nathan der Weise |- |1780||Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts |- |1781||Die eheliche Liebe (Gedicht) |- |&nbsp;||Ernst und Falk - Gespr