Moses Mendelssohn

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Moses Mendelssohn was an 18th-century German-Jewish philosopher whose writings helped bridge Jewish thought and European Enlightenment ideals, earning him recognition as a central figure of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment).

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Moses Mendelssohn canonical 19
Moses Mendelssohn of Dessau 1

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instanceOf Enlightenment philosopher
Haskalah figure
Jewish philosopher
human
philosopher
birthName Moses Mendel Dessau
child Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Dorothea Schlegel
citizenship Prussia
countryOfBirth Holy Roman Empire
dateOfBirth 1729-09-06
dateOfDeath 1786-01-04
educatedAt yeshiva in Dessau
ethnicGroup Jewish people
fieldOfWork aesthetics
metaphysics
political philosophy
theology
genre philosophical literature
religious philosophy
grandchild Fanny Hensel
surface form: Fanny Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn
influenced Haskalah
surface form: Haskalah thinkers

Immanuel Kant
modern Jewish philosophy
influencedBy Baruch Spinoza
Christian Wolff
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
knownFor bridging Jewish thought and European Enlightenment
leading figure of the Haskalah
languageOfWorkOrName German
Hebrew
movement Age of Enlightenment
Haskalah
name Moses Mendelssohn self-link
notableWork German translation of the Pentateuch
Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism
Morgenstunden, oder Vorlesungen über das Dasein Gottes
Phädon
surface form: Phaedon

Phaedo
surface form: Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele
occupation biblical commentator
essayist
philosopher
translator
placeOfBirth Dessau
Duchy of Anhalt
surface form: Duchy of Anhalt-Dessau
placeOfDeath Berlin
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
religion Judaism
residence Berlin
spouse Fromet Gugenheim

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German Enlightenment hasKeyFigure Moses Mendelssohn
Haskalah hasKeyFigure Moses Mendelssohn
Deutsche Aufklärung notableFigure Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn name Moses Mendelssohn self-link
Phädon author Moses Mendelssohn
Jewish philosophy hasNotableFigure Moses Mendelssohn
Naphtali Herz Wessely employer Moses Mendelssohn
Naphtali Herz Wessely workedFor Moses Mendelssohn
Naphtali Herz Wessely influencedBy Moses Mendelssohn
Mendelssohns "Phaedon" author Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendel Dessau alsoKnownAs Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendel Dessau alsoKnownAs Moses Mendelssohn
this entity surface form: Moses Mendelssohn of Dessau
Fromet Gugenheim spouse Moses Mendelssohn
Dorothea Schlegel father Moses Mendelssohn
Dorothea Schlegel influencedBy Moses Mendelssohn
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy father Moses Mendelssohn
Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek contributor Moses Mendelssohn