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Moses Mendelssohn

1729 CE – 1786 CE · 57 years

The hunchbacked son of a Torah scribe who walked to Berlin at fourteen, taught himself German from a Latin dictionary, and became the most celebrated philosopher in Prussia — the man who proved that a Jew could stand at the centre of the European Enlightenment.

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