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    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. His father, also named Karl Friedrich Lessing (1778–1848), was...
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  • Wartenberg. Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), German painter; son of Carl Friedrich Lessing (1778–1848) and great-nephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781)...
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    Karl Freiherr von Drais (full name: Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn; 29 April 1785 – 10 December 1851) was a noble German...
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    of Director Schadow. Leutze was mostly influenced by the painter Karl Friedrich Lessing. In 1842, he went to Munich, studying the works of Cornelius and...
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    Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (/ˈʃleɪɡəl/ SHLAY-gəl; German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃleːɡl̩]; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German poet...
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    Schauspiele von Karl Gotth. Leßing (Berlin: bey Christian Friedrich Voß 1778) Schauspiele von Karl Gotth. Leßing (Berlin: bey Christian Friedrich Voß und Sohn...
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    The Hussite Sermon (category Paintings by Karl Friedrich Lessing)
    Hussitenpredigt) is a painting by the Düsseldorf-based painter Karl Friedrich Lessing, showing an open-air sermon being delivered by a Hussite preacher...
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  • brother to painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), and a grandnephew of poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). Lessing was a botanical authority...
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    Campaigns in Russia. The character is loosely based on baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen. Born in Bodenwerder, Hanover, the real-life...
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    A King and Queen in Mourning (category Paintings by Karl Friedrich Lessing)
    Queen in Mourning is an oil on canvas painting by German artist Karl Friedrich Lessing, created in 1830, showing a royal couple mourning their daughter's...
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    Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre. Lessing was born in Kamenz, a small town in Saxony, to theologe Johann Gottfried Lessing [de] (1693–1770) and his wife Justine...
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    defence of suicide Lessing particularly objected to his presentation of his friend Jerusalem as a "sentimental fool" whereas Lessing saw him as a "true...
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  • Prominent members of the Düsselorf School included von Schadow, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Andreas Achenbach, Hans Fredrik Gude,...
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  • Entwicklungsgeschichte der Kunst Carl Friedrich Lessing. In 1922 he published it under the title Karl Friedrich Lessing, a transitional master of the Düsseldorf...
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    Carl (or Karl) Friedrich Benz (German: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛnts] ; born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant; 25 November 1844 – 4 April 1929) was a German engine...
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    Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (German pronunciation: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbaːɐ̯t]; 25 August 1741 – 23 April 1792), also spelled Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, was an unorthodox...
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    in Battle of Naseby, Charles Landseer, 1851 The Hussite Sermon, Karl Friedrich Lessing, 1836 Return of the Palikar, Eduard Magnus, 1836 The Flute Concert...
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    The Lessing-Gymnasium (together with its twin school Goethe-Gymnasium) is the oldest Gymnasium in Frankfurt. Named after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, it...
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  • (1836–1904) Reinhold Lepsius (1857–1922) Sabine Lepsius (1864–1942) Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880) Wolfgang Lettl (1919–2008) August Leu (1818–1897) Emanuel...
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    Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig Büchner (29 March 1824 – 30 April 1899) was a German philosopher, physiologist and physician who became one of the exponents...
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    Ramberg, Louis Boulanger, Otto Schubert, Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Frank Kirchbach, Georg Emanuel Opiz, William Blake, Franz Stassen...
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    Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Ludwig des Coudres, Adolf Schroedter, and Karl Friedrich Lessing. In Karlsruhe, Werner met with artists like Eduard Devrient, Johannes...
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    Friedrich Franz Karl Hecker (September 28, 1811 – March 24, 1881) was a German lawyer, politician and revolutionary. He was one of the most popular speakers...
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    Jan Hus at the Council of Constance. 19th-century painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing...
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    civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, at age 87. In 2001 Lessing was awarded the David Cohen...
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  • Friedrich Karl Forberg (30 August 1770, Meuselwitz – 1 January 1848, Hildburghausen) was a German philosopher and classical scholar. Born in 1770 in Thuringia...
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  • Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Hegel (7 June 1813 – 5 December 1901) was a German historian and son of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel...
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    prominence as a philosopher. A conversation with Gotthold Lessing in 1780 in which Lessing avowed that he knew no philosophy in the true sense of that...
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    letter to Friedrich Engels contained at No. 8 of the Appendix in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 38, p. 543. Friedrich Engels...
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  • Wilhelm Grimm (story collector, linguist) Carl Gustav Carus (painter) Karl Friedrich Lessing (painter) Philipp Otto Runge (painter) Adam Müller (literary critic...
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