Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Hamburg, Germany - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

This larger than life bronze sculpture of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing depicts him sitting casually (perhaps posing) with his left index finger saving the place in a book. His left arm rests on the arm of a chair. His right arm is bent with his hand resting at his hip. He wears a ruffled shirt, vest and long coat. The statue is set on an elaborate marble plinth about 10 feet tall with additional reliefs and other adornments.
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The 1881 work is by Fritz Schaper.
The inscription reads:

"Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing
1721-1781
Errichtet
1881"

Wikipedia (visit link) also informs us:

"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg...

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Lessing was a poet, philosopher and critic. His theoretical and critical writings are remarkable for their often witty and ironic style and their unerring polemics. Hereby the stylistic device of dialogue met with his intention of looking at a thought from different angles and searching for elements of truth even in the arguments made by his opponents. For him this truth was never solid or something which could be owned by someone but always a process of approaching.

Early in his life, Lessing showed interest in the theatre. In his theoretical and critical writings on the subject—as in his own plays—he tried to contribute to the development of a new type of theatre in Germany. With this he especially turned against the then predominant literary theory of Gottsched and his followers. He particularly criticized the simple imitation of the French example and pleaded for a recollection of the classic theorems of Aristotle and for a serious reception of Shakespeare's works. He worked with many theatre groups (e.g. the one of the Neuberin)."

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