MICHAELIS, JOHANN DAVID. Orientalische und Exegetische Bibliothek [A Journal of Semitic Languages and Exegesis]. Volumes XXI and XXII

(MendelsSohn, Moses)

Johann Gottlieb Garbe

Frankfurt a/Main

1783

FIRST EDITION. German interspersed with Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac

Michaelis (1717-1791), a Christian theologian, Orientalist and professor in Göttingen, figured prominently in the saga of Mendelssohn. At various times, he showed sympathy; at other times, antipathy. Michaelis devoted no less than three articles in Volume XXII of his journal to Moses Mendelssohn's literary creations: “Mendelssohns Uebersetzung der Psalmen” (pp. 46-58); “Mendelssohn's Jerusalem” (pp. 59-99); and “Nachschrift zur Recension von Mendelssohn's Jerusalem” (pp. 165-170). See Alexander Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn (1973), pp. 528, 843, n. 91