Rescues
The Rescues are a series of five texts in which Gotthold Ephraim Lessing defends authors who had the reputation of being a heretic because of their writings. In this way Lessing combines precise philological work with social criticism ; similar defensive writings by his Leipzig teacher Johann Friedrich Christ were a model .
The Rescues of Horace must have arisen directly after Lessing's fundamental criticism of Samuel Gotthold Lange's Horace translations ( A Vade Mecum for Mr. Sam. Gotthold Lange, pastor in Laublingen , 1754): “They are the positive counterpart to the negative criticism of the Vademecum ; and while the Vademecum had defended the integrity of the Horatian text against the translator's distortions, the rescues now defend Horace as a poet and man against the moral and religious objections of his critics. "
Overview
- Rescue of Lemnius in eight letters (in the 2nd volume of his writings , 1753)
- Rescues of Horace (in the 3rd volume of his writings , 1754)
- Saving the here. Cardanus (ibid)
- Rescue of the inepti religiosi and its unnamed author (ibid; the Ineptus Religiosus appeared anonymously in 1652)
- Saving the Cochlaeus but only in a small thing (ibid)
literature
- Michael Multhammer: Lessing's “Rescues”. History and genesis of a style of thinking. Berlin: De Gruyter 2013. (Zugl .: University of Erfurt, Diss., 2012.) ISBN 978-3-11-032890-5 .
- Hugh Barr Nisbet : Lessing. A biography. Translated from English by Karl S. Guthke . Munich: C. H. Beck 2008. pp. 183-190 and 196-200. (on-line)