Salomon ben Josua Maimon (1754, Sukowiborg/Niasviž, near Mirz, Polish Lithuania - 22 November 1800, Nieder-Siegersdorf*, Niederschlesien) was a German philosopher born of Jewish parentage in Belorussia.
Salomon Maimon was born and grew up in Mir in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now in Belarus). He finished Jewish school in Mir, and learned the Talmud by age 9. He was only eleven when he was married to a girl from Nesvizh. At the age 14 he was alr...
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Salomon ben Josua Maimon (1754, Sukowiborg/Niasviž, near Mirz, Polish Lithuania - 22 November 1800, Nieder-Siegersdorf*, Niederschlesien) was a German philosopher born of Jewish parentage in Belorussia.
Salomon Maimon was born and grew up in Mir in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (now in Belarus). He finished Jewish school in Mir, and learned the Talmud by age 9. He was only eleven when he was married to a girl from Nesvizh. At the age 14 he was already a father and was making money by teaching Talmud. Later he learned some German from books and walked all the way to Slutsk, where he met a rabbi who had studied in Germany. He borrowed German books on physics, optics and medicine from him. After that he became determined to study further.
At the age of 25 he left for Germany and studied medicine in Berlin. In 1770 he severed his connection with his orthodox co-religionists by his critical commentary on the Moreh Nebukhim of Maimonides, and devoted himself to the study of philosophy on the...
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