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Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 6 September 1729, 1729
- Died
- 4 January 1786
- Place of birth
- Dessau
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Moses
- Family name
- Mendelssohn
- Father
- Mendel Heymann
- Mother
- Bela Rachel Wahl
- Spouse
- Fromet Mendelssohn
- Child
- Dorothea von Schlegel, Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Recha Meyer, Henriette Mendelssohn, Joseph Mendelssohn, Nathan Mendelssohn
- Movement
- continental philosophy
- Occupation
- philosopher, translator, writer, Bible translator, literary scholar, scientist
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Religion
- Judaism
- archives at
- Berlin State Library
- depicted by
- Moses Mendelssohn
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- family
- Mendelssohn family
- influenced by
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Benedictus de Spinoza
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- name in native language
- Moses Mendelssohn
- notable work
- Netivot Hashalom, Jerusalem, Kahalet Musar, Phaedon
- place of burial
- Jüdischer Friedhof Berlin-Mitte
- time period
- 18th-century philosophy
- topic's main category
- Category:Moses Mendelssohn
- writing language
- German
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