Beschrijving
Dordrecht, Johan Philip Streccius, 1782, (4)+61 pages, original paper binding (edges frayed), clean copy. Not in KB, only in Utrecht. Written by Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus (Hamburg, 11 november 1729 – Rantzau, 6 juni 1814) who was a German physician, historian and economist and son of Hermann Samuel Reimarus (22 December 1694, Hamburg – 1 March 1768, Hamburg), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation. He denied the supernatural origin of Christianity, and was the first influential critic to investigate the historical Jesus. According to Reimarus, Jesus was a mortal Jewish prophet, and the apostles founded Christianity as a religion separate from Jesus own ministry. He had seven children, only three of whom survived him – the distinguished physician Johann Albrecht Heinrich Reimarus, and two daughters, one of them being Elise Reimarus, Lessing's friend and correspondent.