Moses Mendel Dessau

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Moses Mendel Dessau, better known as Moses Mendelssohn, was an 18th-century German-Jewish philosopher and central figure of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment).

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Enlightenment thinker
German Jew
Jewish philosopher
human
philosopher
alsoKnownAs Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn
surface form: Moses Mendelssohn of Dessau
birthName Moses Mendel Dessau self-link
burialPlace Jewish cemetery on Große Hamburger Straße, Berlin
child Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
citizenship Prussia
countryOfBirth Holy Roman Empire
countryOfDeath Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
dateOfBirth 1729-09-06
dateOfDeath 1786-01-04
era Age of Enlightenment
ethnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews
familyName Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
surface form: Mendelssohn
fieldOfWork aesthetics
biblical translation
philosophy of religion
givenName Moses
grandchild Fanny Hensel
surface form: Fanny Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn
influenced German-Jewish intellectual life
Haskalah
surface form: Jewish Enlightenment

Reform Judaism
surface form: modern Reform Judaism
influencedBy Baruch Spinoza
Christian Wolff
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
languageOfWorkOrName German
Hebrew
Yiddish
movement Haskalah
Haskalah
surface form: Jewish Enlightenment
notableFor being a central figure of the Haskalah
notableIdea advocacy of Jewish civil emancipation
synthesis of Judaism and Enlightenment rationalism
notableWork Bi’ur (German translation and commentary on the Pentateuch)
Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism
On the Immortality of the Soul
surface form: Phaedon, or On the Immortality of the Soul
occupation biblical commentator
philosopher
translator
placeOfBirth Anhalt-Dessau
Dessau
placeOfDeath Berlin
religion Judaism
residence Berlin
spouse Fromet Gugenheim

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Moses Mendelssohn birthName Moses Mendel Dessau
Moses Mendel Dessau birthName Moses Mendel Dessau self-link