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Eva Koenig (* 22. March 1736 in Heidelberg; † 10 January 1778 in Wolfenbüttel), born Eva Catharina Hahn, from 1776 Eva Lessing, was the wife of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. From 1756 she was married to the Hamburg merchant Engelbert König. In 1767 she became friends with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, who also became godfather to her son Fritz. After the death of Engelbert König in 1768, Lessing took care of the widow. The friendship culminated in an engagement in 1771. Because of her husband's estate, Eva König had to go to Vienna several times for long periods of time. Eventually she sold her late husband's factories in order to financially secure herself and her children. In 1775 Lessing traveled to Italy with Prince Leopold. The contact between the two during the engagement consisted mainly of the well-known exchange of letters. Only in 1776 could they marry in Jork (near Hamburg). Eva Lessing moved with her husband to Wolfenbüttel, where she died of childbed fever in 1778 after the birth of her son Traugott.
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