Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729[note 1] – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau, Principality of Anhalt, and originally destined for a rabbinical career, Mendelssohn educated himself in German thought and literature. Through his writings on philosophy and religion he came to be regarded as a leading cultural figure of his time by both Christian and Jewish inhabitants of German-speaking Europe and beyond. His involvement in the Berlin textile industry formed the foundation of his family's wealth.
His descendants include the composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn; Felix's son, chemist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Fanny's grandsons, Paul and Kurt Hensel; and the founders of the Mendelssohn & Co. banking house.
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MosesMendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion...
The Mendelssohn family are the descendants of Mendel of Dessau. The German Jewish philosopher MosesMendelssohn and his brother Saul were the first to...
As a result, many German Jews began to emigrate. From the time of MosesMendelssohn until the 20th century, the community gradually achieved emancipation...
that it must be immortal. The tradition arguably culminates with MosesMendelssohn's Phaedon. Theodore Metochites argues that part of the soul's nature...
Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. Mendelssohn's grandfather was the renowned Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
recommends candidates for ordination into the Jewish clergy. The MosesMendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies focuses on the history, religion...
formulated in the very first Maskilic locus at Berlin. Its members, like MosesMendelssohn, Naphtali Hirz Wessely, Isaac Satanow and Isaac Euchel, authored tracts...
Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Rebecka Mendelssohn, and Paul Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was born and died in Berlin. The son of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
1767, is a book by the Jewish Enlightenment philosopher MosesMendelssohn, in which Mendelssohn offers a defense of immortality. Phaedon is a defense of...
in the 18th century with the Orthodox Jacob Emden and the reformer MosesMendelssohn, have sympathetically argued that the historical Jesus may have been...
parents were Abraham Mendelssohn (who was the son of the philosopher MosesMendelssohn), and Lea [de], née Salomon, a granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel...
Enlightenment rationalism and it would finally end in absolute atheism. MosesMendelssohn disagreed with Jacobi, saying that there is no actual difference between...
Joseph Mendelssohn (11 August 1770 – 24 November 1848) was a German Jewish banker. He was the eldest son of the influential philosopher MosesMendelssohn. In...
Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz/ my-MON-ih-deez) and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (Hebrew:...
great-grandfather was Daniel Itzig, and his paternal great-grandfather was MosesMendelssohn. He studied sciences at Heidelberg University, where Robert Bunsen...
as a personal disagreement between Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and MosesMendelssohn over their understanding of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Spinozist beliefs...
2021-09-06. "The Baroque Synagogue Of Halberstadt - MosesMendelssohn Academy Halberstadt". www.moses-mendelssohn-akademie.de. Retrieved 2021-09-06. "Partnerstädte"...
Existentialism: Søren Kierkegaard Father of Logic: Aristotle The Jewish Luther: MosesMendelssohn Laughing Philosopher: Democritus Longshoreman Philosopher: Eric Hoffer...
studies of the thought of MosesMendelssohn, and was indeed the leading Mendelssohn scholar since the time of Mendelssohn himself. He also made important...
views are Jacob Emden, Eliyahu Soloveitchik, and Elijah Benamozegh. MosesMendelssohn, as well as some other religious thinkers of the Jewish Enlightenment...
communicated with MosesMendelssohn, founder of the breakaway Haskalah movement: "A 19th-century copy of a 1773 letter from MosesMendelssohn to Rabbi Jacob...
Weill Festival. Dessau was also the birthplace of the philosopher MosesMendelssohn (in 1729), and Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (der alte Dessauer)...
ashkenazi u-veʾur. - 1783. Translated from the Hebrew into German by MosesMendelssohn. Berlin : Gedruckt bey George Friedrich Starcke". digipres.cjh.org...
Mendelssohn in 1764 in Berlin. Oldest daughter of the philosopher MosesMendelssohn, a leading figure in the German Enlightenment (Aufklärung). In 1783...
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