Autobiography. Solomon Maimon

The autobiography of the outstanding German philosopher of Solomon Maimeon (1753-1800) is truly a unique essay, which, by the general opinion of researchers, there are no equal in the European memoir literature of the second half of the XVIII century. Having done an independent path from the Polish town to Berlin, from the Great Hope of the Young Talmudist to the philosopher, the companion of Johann Fichte and Immanuel Kant, Maundus left, in addition to the large philosophical heritage, amazing memories that not only became the most important document in the study of the life and morals of Poland and Jews Eastern Europe, but are without exaggerating the hymn enlightenment and the strength of the human spirit.
This autobiography opens the book series Heritage of Solomon Maimeon, whose goal is to familiarize Russian-speaking readers with his work.
Responsive editor of the Solomon Solomon Series Series Semen Mordukhovich Yakerson - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Semitology and Gebraissics of St. Petersburg State University and the leading researcher at the Institute of Eastern Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences