biography
pronunciation:
[mendelsuhn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1729–86)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, literary critic, and biblical scholar, born in Dessau, EC Germany. He studied at Berlin and became the partner to a silk manufacturer. A zealous defender of enlightened monotheism, he was an apostle of deism. His major works include Phädon (1767), on the immortality of the soul; Jerusalem (1783), which advocates Judaism as the religion of reason; and Morgenstunden (1785) which argues for the rationality of belief in the existence of God. |
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