PHILOSOPHER

Moses Mendelssohn

1729 - 1786

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Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moses Mendelssohn has received more than 771,760 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Moses Mendelssohn is the 185th most popular philosopher (up from 206th in 2019), the 304th most popular biography from Germany (up from 377th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn is most famous for his scholarly work on the translation of the Bible into German. He was also an influential philosopher and a leading figure in the Jewish Enlightenment.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Moses Mendelssohn ranks 185 out of 1,267. Before him are Pierre Bayle, Paul Ricœur, José Ortega y Gasset, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Marquis de Condorcet, and Apollonius of Tyana. After him are Bernard Bolzano, Ibn Tufail, Nicolas Malebranche, Jakob Böhme, Emmanuel Levinas, and Pierre Gassendi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Moses Mendelssohn ranks 5. Before him are Catherine the Great, Louis, Dauphin of France, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Edmund Burke. After him are Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Antonio Soler, Johann Daniel Titius, and Johann Reinhold Forster. Among people deceased in 1786, Moses Mendelssohn ranks 3. Before him are Frederick the Great, and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. After him are Peter III of Portugal, Maurice Benyovszky, Franz Benda, Tokugawa Ieharu, John Goodricke, Eva Ekeblad, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Antonio Sacchini, and Hans Joachim von Zieten.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Moses Mendelssohn ranks 304 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Marc (1880), Robert Bunsen (1811), Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1955), Hermann Hoth (1885), and Michael Wittmann (1914). After him are Sepp Dietrich (1892), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Henry the Lion (1129), Christian III of Denmark (1503), Hans von Aachen (1552), and Karen Horney (1885).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Moses Mendelssohn ranks 32. Before him are Max Scheler (1874), Herbert Marcuse (1898), Carl Schmitt (1888), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Max Horkheimer (1895), and Athanasius Kircher (1602). After him are Adam Weishaupt (1748), Rudolf Carnap (1891), Ernst Bloch (1885), Hugh of Saint Victor (1096), Hans Jonas (1903), and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743).

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