Mendelssohn

MOSES,(main'dēlz-sōn,) a distinguished German philosopher, B. at De au, 1729, of Jewish extraction. In 1745 he embarked upon a literary life in Berlin, and became the friend of, and a co-worker with, Le ing. M. was one of the most original thinkers of his epoch, and has left us Letters on the Sensations, and Phædo, a Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul-the last a work highly esteemed and frequently translated. D. 1786. [s. 591]