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1729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in Kamenz to a Lutheran clergyman Approx 1745 At 16 he was ready for the University of Leipzig 1748 Frau Neuber put on Lessing`s own maiden effort to the stage, Der Junge Gelehrte 08/13/1748 he enrolled as a medicine student at the university in Wittenberg 1748 Lessings moved to Berlin during the winter 1751 Returned to Wittenberg to finish his scholarly degree, following his Father`s wishes 04/29/1752 he aquired the degree of "Master of Liberal Arts" with his paper written about the Spaniard Juan Huart. 1755 Miss Sara Sampson, a bourgeois tragedy of epoch-making importance to the German stage. 1767 Minna von Barnhelm 1770 He was made court librarian for the Duke of Brunswick at Wolfenbuttel. 1781 his sudden death while on a trip to Brunswick |