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... Wikipedia
Born: September 6, 1729, Dessau, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Died: January 4, 1786 (age 56 years), Berlin, Germany
Children: Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Dorothea von Schlegel, Joseph Mendelssohn, and more
Influenced by: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Baruch Spinoza, Maimonides, and more
Spouse: Fromet Mendelssohn (m. 1762–1786)
Grandchildren: Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn, Rebecka Mendelssohn, and more
Books
Phadon, or On the Immortality of the Soul
1767
Jerusalem, o Acerca de poder religioso y judaísmo
1783
Schreiben an den Herrn Diaconus Lavater zu Zürich. Von Moses Mendelssohn. In reply to the dedication to Moses Mendelssohn of his translation of Bonnet's "Recherches philosophiques sur les preuves du Christianisme."
1770
Jerusalem
Jerusalem; a Treatise on Ecclesiastical Authority and Judaism