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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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-Dessau NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Berlin
Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
religion Judaism
residence Berlin
spouse Fromet Gugenheim

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Phädon author Moses Mendelssohn
German Enlightenment hasKeyFigure Moses Mendelssohn
Haskalah hasKeyFigure Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn name Moses Mendelssohn self-link
Deutsche Aufklärung notableFigure Moses Mendelssohn