Moritz Brasch

Moritz Brasch (* August 18, 1843 Zempelburg / West Prussia; † 14 September 1895 in Leipzig ) was a German philosopher of Jewish origin.

Life

Brasch was one of the philosophers, the philosophy made ​​intelligible through extensive publishing activity. He published, among others, the works of Moses Mendelssohn, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Especially noteworthy is beyond the three -volume edition of the classic philosophy from the earliest Greek thinkers up to the present.

Brasch was married to the writer Warschalkowitsch Frida ( 1843-1907 ). Their son, Hans (1881-1915) was a lawyer and worked in Leipzig's Jewish community as secretary. He was among the first casualties of the First World War.