著者

安酸 敏眞

出版者

聖学院大学

雑誌

聖学院大学論叢 (ISSN:09152539)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.179-192, 1994-01-20

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From 1774 onward G. E. Lessing, as librarian of the famous Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbüttel, published a series of manuscripts and other holdings which he had discovered in the Library. Among them were the Fragmente eines Ungenannten. The publication of these fragments aroused a heated controversy because of the unusually critical ideas contained in them. Many theologians and clergymen hysterically responded with severe attacks on the unnamed author. But J. M. Goeze, who was reviled as "the Papst Hammoniens" or "der Inquisitor", reproached not so much the unnamed author as the editor of the fragments for the circulation of blasphemous ideas. Lessing bravely counterattacked the inquisitor. Hence the face-to-face confrontation between Lessing and Goeze. The purpose of this study is to examine the first phase of the controversy with the aim of shedding light on the real motive of Lessing and Goeze.