Moses Mendelssohn lived between the years 1729 and
1786. He was known as the " father of Haskalah " because
of his contributions to the Haskalah movement. Mendelssohn
was a Jewish philosopher, and got much of his education
from his father, the local rabbi, David Frankel. Mendelssohn
studied the philosophy of Maimonides. He had written the "
Principally Leibnia ",as an attack on the national neglect of
native philosophers. Also published by Mendelssohn was the
" Philosophical Conversations " in 1755. Between the years
1756 and 1759, Mendelssohn became known as the "
leading spirit of the Bibiothek " and ran some risk by freely
criticizing the poems of the king of Prussia. In 1762 he won
the prize offered by the Berlin academy for an essay on the
application of mathematical proofs to metaphysics. On
October 1763, the King granted Mendelssohn the privilege
of Protected Jew (Schutz - Jude), which assured his right to
undisturbed residence in Berlin. Mendelssohn devoted......

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