Gotthold Lessing: On Love of  Truth
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2014-08-13

Gotthold Ephriam Lessing lived in the Holy Roman Empire from 1729-1781. It's been said that he wrote the first play about middle class tragedy. Soren Kierkegaard referred to him in his 1846 book Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments.

You can read about him here:

https://archive.org/stream/libraryofworldsbe23warn#page/n21/mode/1up