[Hochzuehrender Herr].

Abstract

Seven handwritten pages by Markus Herz, incl. a typed transcript and notes by Fritz Bamberger:The manuscript was written in form of a letter to “Highly esteemed Sir [Gottfried Ephraim Lessing]” in Berlin, on April 7, 1775. Lessing wanted to know Moses Mendelssohn’s views on “Philosophische Aufsaetze” by Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem; Mendelssohn asked Herz to convey his thoughts to Lessing.digitizedThe physician Markus Herz (1747-1803) was the husband of Henriette Herz