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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Germany.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in Kamenz, Upper Lusatia, Saxony (modern-day Germany).1