Early modern · 1729–1786
Who influenced Moses Mendelssohn?
Influences and legacy
The German Socrates of the Jewish Enlightenment: reason and tradition in one life.
Moses Mendelssohn was influenced by Baruch Spinoza and Christian Wolff, and went on to influence Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Moses Mendelssohn?
Moses Mendelssohn, born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau and meant for a rabbinical career, taught himself German philosophy and literature. His writings on Judaism and Jewish identity were central to the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment.
Christians and Jews alike regarded him as a leading cultural figure of his day. His descendants include the composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Moses Mendelssohn?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677
- Christian Wolff 1679–1754
Who did Moses Mendelssohn influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Moses Mendelssohn.
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi 1743–1819
The line of teachers behind Moses Mendelssohn
The longest documented line of influence ending at Moses Mendelssohn runs 19 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Moses Mendelssohn
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Moses Mendelssohn
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Moses Mendelssohn, with no direct line between them.
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729–1781
- Johann Georg Hamann 1730–1788
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804
- Adam Smith 1723–1790
- Hryhorii Skovoroda 1722–1794
- Johann Gottfried Herder 1744–1803
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac 1714–1780
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784
Moses Mendelssohn by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 75
- Thinkers downstream
- 1
- Wikipedia languages
- 47 — #29 of 36 among early modern philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Moses Mendelssohn
- Who influenced Moses Mendelssohn?
- Baruch Spinoza and Christian Wolff.
- Who did Moses Mendelssohn influence?
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi.
- When did Moses Mendelssohn live?
- 1729–1786. The map files Moses Mendelssohn under the early modern period.
- How rare is the Moses Mendelssohn card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Moses Mendelssohn in 47 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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