Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge
Lessing
लेसिंग
said LES-sing
also written: lessing, gotthold lessing, gottlieb lessing
Meaning
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), German Enlightenment writer; part of the German intellectual tradition Iqbal studied during his years in Europe.
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Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the German poet Iqbal deeply admired; his 'West-östlicher Divan' and 'Faust' inspired Iqbal's own East-West dialogue and his Payam-e-Mashriq (Message of the East).
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Hegel
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), German idealist philosopher of dialectic and the Absolute Spirit; Iqbal critically engaged his system, valuing its dynamism but rejecting its pantheistic absorption of the self.