Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Born January 22, 1729, in Kamenz, a small city of northeastern Saxony, of a family originally Slavic but citizens of Germany for centuries, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing mingled in his character the energetic ruggedness of the frontier with the discipline of civilization that turned it into intellectual and aesthetic channels. As the oldest son of the city’s chief pastor, the boy attended the Latin School and the famous St. Afra in Meissen, where students were up at 4:30 a.m. for a long day at their books. Introduced by his mathematics teacher to the writers of Europe, Lessing studied...
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