Nathan The Wise A Drama In Five Acts Abridged And Translated From The German By E S H

Author : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499592191
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Nathan the Wise; a Dramatic Poem in Five Acts written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born on the 22nd of January, 1729, eldest of ten sons of a pious and learned minister of Camenz in the Oberlausitz, who had two daughters also. As a child Lessing delighted in books, and had knowledge beyond his years when he went to school, in Meissen, at the age of twelve. As a school-boy he read much Greek and Latin that formed no part of the school course; read also the German poets of his time, wrote a "History of Ancient Mathematics," and began a poem of his own on the "Plurality of Worlds." In 1746, at the age of seventeen, Lessing was sent to the University of Leipsic. There he studied with energy, and was attracted strongly by the theatre. His artistic interest in the drama caused him to be put on the free list of the theatre, in exchange for some translations of French pieces. Then he produced, also for the Leipsic stage, many slight pieces of his own, and he had serious thought of turning actor, which excited alarm in the parsonage at Camenz and caused his recall home in January, 1747. It was found, however, that although he could not be trained to follow his father's profession, he had been studying to such good purpose, and developing, in purity of life, such worth of character, that after Easter he was sent back to Leipsic, with leave to transfer his studies from theology to medicine.