Clara von Ammon who married , a diplomat between the States and Germany and son of controversial politician (1793–1862) who had been imprisoned for left wing ideas. Franziska Fanny Maria Lessing (1818–1901), daughter of Carl Friedrich Lessing and great niece of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), married to German painter (1807–1884). (1827–1895), publicist, owner of the Vossische Zeitung and Schloss Meseberg, son of Carl Friedrich Lessing (1778–1848) and great nephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). (1861–1919), son of Carl Robert Lessing (1827–1895), landowner and liberal politician. Otto Lessing (sculptor) (1846–1912), German sculptor, photographer and writer, gifted pianist, son of Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), married to Sigrid Gude, daughter of Norwegian painter Hans Gude. Bertha Lessing (1844–1914) daughter of Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), married to royal court actor and dramatist Karl Koberstein; their son Hans Koberstein became a painter. (1852–1916) landscape painter, son of Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880). (1856–1930), painter, son of Karl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880). Kolja Lessing (born 1961), five times great nephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German pianist, violinist, composer and music professor at the Stuttgart Musik Hochschule. Lessing is also the surname of: Doris Lessing (1919–2013), British novelist and the 2007 Nobel Prize laureate in literature. once married to Gottfried Lessing Gottfried Lessing (1914–1979), German diplomat Erich Lessing (1923–2018), Austrian Magnum photographer Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861–1939), Russian geologist Kolja Lessing (born 1961), German violinist, pianist, composer and academic teacher Lawrence Lessing, US journalist Madge Lessing (1862-1935), English actress Roland Lessing (born 1978), Estonian biathlete Simon Lessing (born 1971), British athlete Theodor Lessing (1872–1933), German-Jewish philosopher Similar names Lessig References German-language surnames