One of Moses Mendelssohn's daughters married Frederick Schlegel, and swerving from the religion in which both had been brought up, both became Roman Catholics. "Faithful to the religion of his fathers, as wise as Socrates, like Socrates teaching the immortality of the soul, and like Socrates leaving a name that is immortal."
The epigraph on the bust of this ancestor of the composer, shows the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries: To this great power of intellect, Moses Mendelssohn added a purity and dignity of character worthy of the old stoics. Moses Mendelssohn, his grandfather, a great Jewish philosopher, one of the most remarkable men of his time, was the author of profound Metaphysical works, written both in German and Hebrew. The name to which he was destined to add such lustre, was already high in the annals of fame. OLIVER DITSON - CO., 277 WASHINGTON STREET.įelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was born at Hamburg, on the third of February, 1809.
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