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Lessing, Theodor
(1872-1933)
   German philosopher. He was born in Hanover. He converted to Lutheranism in 1908 and was appointed instructor at the Technische Hochschule in Hanover. He published studies of Schopenhauer, Wagner and Nietzsche. Later he returned to Judaism, and expressed his views in Jewish Self-Hate. Towards the end of his life he lived in Marienbad, where he was murdered by the Nazis.

Dictionary of Jewish Biography. .