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.
- Occupation
- philosopher, translator, writer, Bible translator
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- September 6, 1729
- Died
- January 4, 1786
