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Who produced Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s comedy Der junge Gelehrte in 1748?
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Germany.
In 1748, the actress Caroline Neuber successfully produced Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s comedy Der junge Gelehrte (“The Young Scholar”).1