Oct 29, 2023
Semianonymous publication in the 18th century is fantastic.
According to Altmann, Mendelssohn writes a criticism of W from Zürich, only to learn that the author was not Wieland, as he had supposed, but someone named Jakob Wegelin. Who had read Mendelssohn's critique and thought it was by his friend Lessing: "only a Lessing could poke fun at so serious a theme" (142)!
#in unrelated news I only learned this week that one of my mutuals was also my irl friend#I just thought they were a very nice person#thank you ferb#Jakob Wegelin#Wegelin#Christoph Martin Wieland#Wieland#Gotthold Ephraim Lessing#Lessing#Moses Mendlessohn#Mendelssohn#Alexander Altmann#Altmann#Moses Mendelssohn: a Biographical Study#Herr Moses am Alexanderplatz
