Karl Gotthelf Lessing

Karl Gotthelf Lessing (July 10, 1740 in Kamenz – February 17, 1812 in Breslau) was a German mint director, comedy writer and the first biographer and estate manager of his brother Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

He moved to the law faculty, but did not complete his studies there, but instead went to Berlin to live with his brother in 1765.

In 1781, the mint entrepreneurs of the Prussian financial administration Daniel Itzig and Hirsch Simon persuaded him to have the so-called Hoym coins minted, which showed the date of the birthday of the Silesian Provincial Minister Karl Georg Heinrich von Hoym on the back instead of the usual inscription.

Karl Gotthelf Lessing died on February 17, 1812 in Breslau, his wife on October 24, 1828 in Berlin.

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