Early modern · 1729–1781
Who influenced Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?
Influences and legacy
Dramatist-critic whose Spinoza dispute opened the German pantheism controversy.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was influenced by Baruch Spinoza, and went on to influence Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German dramatist, critic and philosopher of the Enlightenment whose plays and theory strongly shaped German literature.
Theatre historians regard him as the first dramaturg, a role he held at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre, and the word "dramaturgy" first appears in his Hamburg Dramaturgy.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677
Who did Gotthold Ephraim Lessing influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi 1743–1819
The line of teachers behind Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The longest documented line of influence ending at Gotthold Ephraim Lessing runs 17 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, with no direct line between them.
- Moses Mendelssohn 1729–1786
- Johann Georg Hamann 1730–1788
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
- Adam Smith 1723–1790
- Hryhorii Skovoroda 1722–1794
- Johann Gottfried Herder 1744–1803
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac 1714–1780
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 72
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 71 — #21 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Who influenced Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?
- Baruch Spinoza.
- Who did Gotthold Ephraim Lessing influence?
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi.
- When did Gotthold Ephraim Lessing live?
- 1729–1781. The map files Gotthold Ephraim Lessing under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Gotthold Ephraim Lessing card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 71 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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