Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (died 1786)

Moses Mendelssohn

German philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)

Moses Mendelssohn 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…