This character's wife and seven sons were burned alive in Gath, a fact that he reveals to a pious Friar who turns out to be a former groom of Wolf von Filnek.
This character's wife and seven sons were burned alive in Gath, a fact that he reveals to a pious Friar who turns out to be a former groom of Wolf von Filnek. He impresses the Dervish Al-Hafi and the Templar Curt von Stauffen with his enlightened views, and raises his foster daughter Recha in no specific religion. Al-Hafi says of him that he "has brains, knows how to live, and plays good chess," a description that refers to Moses Mendelssohn. He responds to a dangerous question from Saladin by telling the parable of the three rings. FTP name this title character of a play written by Gotthold Lessing, a really tolerant Jew known as "the Wise."
This character's wife and seven sons were burned alive in Gath, a fact that he reveals to a pious Friar who turns out to be a former groom of Wolf von Filnek.
{Nathan} the Wise or {Nathan} der Weise