Der Junge Gelehrte

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Der Junge Gelehrte

play by Lessing

Also known as: “The Young Scholar”

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In Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Education and first dramatic works.
…1748 successfully produced his comedy Der junge Gelehrte (“The Young Scholar”). The play is a delightful satire on an arrogant, superficial, vain, and easily offended scholar, a figure through which Lessing mocked his own bookishness. The other comedies belonging to this Leipzig period of 1747–49 (Damon, Die alte Jungfer [“The…
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