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Moses Hess
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Moses Hess was a German philosopher, politician, journalist, and writer born in Bonn in 1812. He was educated at the University of Bonn and wrote in German. His works are archived at the International Institute of Social History.
Hess died in Paris in 1875 and was buried in Cologne. He is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron. Open Library lists 51 works by the author.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1812
- Died
- 1875
- Works
- 51
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Key facts
- Born
- 21 January 1812, Bonn , France
- Died
- 6 April 1875 (aged 63), Paris , France
- Resting place
- Kinneret Cemetery, Israel
- Spouse
- Sibylle Pesch
- Education
- University of Bonn
- School
- Young Hegelians , Socialism , Zionism
- Main interests
- Political philosophy
- Notable works
- Rome and Jerusalem: The Last National Question
- Notable ideas
- Labor Zionism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Moses
- Family name
- Hess
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Bonn
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of Bonn
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- writer
- Image
- Moses Hess.jpg
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- Commons category
- Moses Hess
- date of birth
- 1812-01-21
- date of death
- 1875-04-06
- Commons gallery
- Moses Hess
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- archives at
- International Institute of Social History
- writing language
- German
- name in native language
- Moses Hess
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Encyclopedic overview
Moses Hess (21 January 1812 – 6 April 1875) was a German-Jewish philosopher, a writer on socialism, and in later life, a forerunner of the political movement that became known as Zionism. His intellectual journey included significant contributions to the early development of socialist theory, and he was a close collaborator and an important influence on Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In his later life, Hess's focus shifted towards Jewish nationalism, culminating in his seminal 1862 work, Rome and Jerusalem.
Born in the French-occupied Rhineland, Hess was raised in a traditional Jewish home but broke away in his youth to pursue a path of philosophy and radical politics. His first book, The Holy History of Mankind (1837), proposed a socialist society founded on a synthesis of Jewish and Christian ethics, mediated through the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. In the 1840s, he became a central figure among the Young Hegelians, where he developed a theory of "ethical socialism" and was one of the first thinkers in the German tradition to articulate a sophisticated theory of alienation rooted in social and economic conditions.
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