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Excerpt from Zur Entstehung von Voltaire's "Zaïre" Inaugural-Dissertation Schmidt, Erich, G. E. Lessings Übersetzungen aus dem Französischen Friedrichs des Grossen und Voltaire's, Berlin 1892. Schmidt, Erich, Lessing, Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Schriften Berlin 1892. Schröter und Thiele, Lessings Hamburgische Dramaturgie, Ausgabe für Schule und Haas, Halle 1895. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.