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- ↑ Binnow, "Die Familie Lessing"; Arend Buchholtz: Die Geschichte der Familie Lessing. Berlin: C. R. Lessing, 1909. 2 volumes; Wolfgang Drews: Lessing, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1962, pp. 13–38; Dr Gerhard Stephan: "Die Familie Lessing", Kamenzer Heimatbuch 5, pp. 28–36.)
- ↑ Review of Die Lehre vom Menschen by Carl Friedrich Lessing, in Berliner Literarische Zeitung, volume 2, no. 4, 21 January 1835, column 58
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