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67-573: Crome may refer to: People [ edit ] August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome (1753–1833), German economist Georg Ernst Wilhelm Crome (1781–1813), German agricultural scientist; see Franz Körte John Crome (1768–1821), English painter and founder of the Norwich School of painters John Berney Crome (1794–1842), English painter Louise Crome , New Zealand squash player Other [ edit ] Crome, former name of Chrome, California ,

134-449: A republic , may be the most congenial to the national genius—so individuals may need different religions. The test of religion is its effect on conduct. This is the moral of Lessing's Nathan the Wise ( Nathan der Weise ), the hero of which is undoubtedly Mendelssohn, and in which the parable of the three rings is the epitome of the pragmatic position. To Mendelssohn his theory represented

201-472: A Latin dictionary. He then made the acquaintance of Aaron Solomon Gumperz , who taught him basic French and English. In 1750, a wealthy Jewish silk -merchant, Isaac Bernhard, appointed him to teach his children. Mendelssohn soon won the confidence of Bernhard, who made the young student successively his bookkeeper and his partner. It was possibly Gumperz who introduced Mendelssohn to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1754, who became one of his greatest friends. It

268-544: A call to Berlin , and a few months later Moses followed him. Moses, age 14, "entered Berlin at the Rosenthaler Tor, the only gate in the city wall through which Jews (and cattle) were allowed to pass." "Mendelssohn enrolled in Frankel's exacting seminary, where the program consisted of unending rote repetitions of early medieval texts, interpretations thereof, elaborations of Talmudic law, and copious commentary accumulated over

335-634: A community in Glenn County See also [ edit ] Chrome (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Crome . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crome&oldid=1213338998 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

402-488: A dispute about the recent published epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , on which Büsching sharply disapproved, but was defended by Crome. His uncle angry left the lunch table, and Crome was late for church, but then delivered a sermon which reconciled his uncle - so that the Sorrows of Werther would have no lasting fatal effect. Instead of the priest profession, Crome choose a teacher career and taught from 1779 at

469-577: A few days before his death. Mendelssohn's complete works have been published in 19 volumes (in the original languages) (Stuttgart, 1971 ff., ed. A. Altmann and others) Mendelssohn had six children , of whom only his second-oldest daughter, Recha, and his eldest son, Joseph, retained the Jewish faith. His sons were: Joseph (founder of the Mendelssohn banking house and a friend and benefactor of Alexander von Humboldt ), Abraham (who married Lea Salomon and

536-557: A good relationship and became his frequent dinner guest. As a member of a so-called "War on Land Commission", which had to mediate between the people and the occupiers, Crome, among other things prevented the looting of the University Library in 1799. After the end of the occupation Crome was commissioned to negotiation of a pacification treaty with Bernadotte in Mainz, whereby a renewed occupation of Hesse-Darmstadt, should be prevented. On

603-702: A lawyer in Kniphausen. Thanks to the financial help of his uncle, the geographer, historian, educator and theologian Anton Friedrich Büsching in Berlin, the Count of Bentinck , and the church of his father, Crome was able to study in theology from 1772 to 1774 at the University of Halle . Through teaching at the Latin school of the orphanage, he earned money for lunch and dinner, and gained his first teaching experience. After his years at

670-400: A leading cultural figure of his time by both Christian and Jewish inhabitants of German-speaking Europe and beyond. His involvement in the Berlin textile industry formed the foundation of his family's wealth. His descendants include the composers Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn ; Felix's son, chemist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; Fanny's grandsons, Paul and Kurt Hensel ; and the founders of

737-676: A lively conversation to translate and annotate his work "Governo della Toscana". As a reward, he was promised one of the five prebends of the Protestant founders. His son and successor of Francis II , after another audience, would delivered that promise. Among the 1,000 subscribers of the subsequently published work by Crome were 70 ruling princes. In 1797 French troops occupied the Upper Hesse and moved their headquarters to Giessen. To General Bernadotte , who took command in Giessen in 1798, Crome build

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804-496: A mild form of familial dysautonomia , a hereditary disease of Ashkenazi Jews, which often brings with it a curvature of the spine and epilepsy -like symptoms in times of stress. Mendelssohn was treated with China bark , blood lettings on the foot, leeches applied to the ears, enemas , foot baths, lemonade and mainly vegetarian food. “No mental stress whatsoever” was ordered. However, although he remained subject to periods of setback, he eventually recovered sufficiently to write

871-493: A preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to "do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable." Mendelssohn answered in an open letter in December 1769: "Suppose there were living among my contemporaries a Confucius or a Solon , I could, according to the principles of my faith, love and admire

938-460: A recordings of prominent goods and services produced. The map received very positive reception, including a review by Georg Forster , and proved to be a financial success for Crome. Today this map is considered to be the earliest economic thematic map . Crome started living as private scholar and writer. He published geographic and statistical works and studied the general theory of the state. After statistical analysis of available data, he foresaw

1005-489: A result of his correspondence with Abbt, Mendelssohn resolved to write on the immortality of the soul. Materialistic views were at the time rampant and fashionable, and faith in immortality was at a low ebb. At this favourable juncture appeared Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele ( Phaedo or On the Immortality of Souls ; 1767). Modelled on Plato 's dialogue of the same name , Mendelssohn's work possessed some of

1072-571: A revolutionary war in Germany and the destruction of the German-Franconian culture by a Russian-Asian coalition. He saw France as the protective power for Germany against the East, promised peace to the continent, and foresaw the flourishing of the continental economy and culture with a Napoleonic victory against Great Britain. The German people must preserve peace and order and follow its ruling king. After

1139-450: A series of lectures to his oldest son, his son-in-law and a young friend, usually held "in the morning hours", in which he explained his personal philosophical world-view, his own understanding of Spinoza and Lessing's "purified" ( geläutert ) pantheism. But almost simultaneously with the publication of this book in 1785, Jacobi published extracts of his and Mendelssohn's letters as Briefe über die Lehre Spinozas , stating publicly that Lessing

1206-545: A short and restless sleep one evening, Mendelssohn found himself incapable of moving and had the feeling of something lashing his neck with fiery rods, his heart was palpitating and he was in an extreme anxiety, yet fully conscious. This spell was then broken suddenly by some external stimulation. Attacks of this kind recurred. The cause of his disease was ascribed to the mental stress due to his theological controversy with Lavater. However, this sort of attack, in milder form, had presumably occurred many years earlier. Bloch diagnosed

1273-514: A strengthening bond to Judaism. But in the first part of the 19th century, the criticism of Jewish dogmas and traditions was associated with a firm adhesion to the older Jewish mode of living. Reason was applied to beliefs, the historic consciousness to life. Modern reform in Judaism has parted to some extent from this conception. In the view of the German writer Heinrich Heine , "as Luther had overthrown

1340-426: Is a forcible plea for freedom of conscience, described by Kant as "an irrefutable book". Mendelssohn wrote: Brothers, if you care for true piety, let us not feign agreement, where diversity is evidently the plan and purpose of Providence. None of us thinks and feels exactly like his fellow man: why do we wish to deceive each other with delusive words? Its basic thrust is that the state has no right to interfere with

1407-451: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages August Friedrich Wilhelm Crome Crome was born into a middle-class family. His father Johann Friedrich Crome (1724-1802) was first headmaster in Stadthagen , then pastor, and later superintendent and official in the village of Sengwarden (allegedly he had two legendary encounters with

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1474-623: Is kept in such a distance, that one might well despair of ever overcoming it". One of the means of doing this was by "giving them a better translation of the holy books than they previously had". To this end Mendelssohn undertook his German translation of the Pentateuch and other parts of the Bible. This work was called the Bi'ur ( the explanation ) (1783) and also contained a commentary, only that on Exodus having been written by Mendelssohn himself. The translation

1541-580: Is said that the first time Mendelssohn met Lessing, they played chess . In Lessing's play Nathan the Wise Nathan and the character Saladin first meet during a game of chess. Lessing had recently produced the drama Die Juden , whose moral was that a Jew can possess nobility of character. This notion was, in the contemporary Berlin of Frederick the Great , generally ridiculed as untrue. Lessing found in Mendelssohn

1608-611: The Confederation of the Rhine , whom he praised as a rational creation. Due to his behavior in the year 1813 he became subject to severe attacks. On request of the French headquarters, he had written the essay, entitled "Deutschlands Crise und Errettung im April und May 1813" (Crises in Germany and salvation in April and May 1813), which was released from draft. He advocated peace with France, warned for

1675-468: The Hebrew inscription on his gravestone (see picture to the right) reads: "H[ere] r[ests] / the wise R[eb] Moses of Dessau / born on the 12th of Elul 5489 [6 September 1729] / died on Wednesday the 5th of Shevat [4 January] / and buried the next morning on Thursday 6th/ 5546 [5 January 1786] / M[ay] H[is] S[oul be] B[ound up in the] B[ond of eternal] L[ife]". Although the cemetery was largely destroyed during

1742-704: The Imperial Academy of Sciences (until 1934 in Saint Petersburg), he refused. In the next decennia Crome made a number of other remarkable maps. Starting in 1784, Crome published a road map from the journey from Leipzig to Magdeburg , entitled "Reise-Karte von Leipzig nach Magdeburg". The next year in 1785 he published historically one of the first statistical maps, and one of the first comparison diagrams . This map, entitled "Groessen-Karte von Europa, welche den Flächen-Inhalt und die Volksmenge der vorzüglichsten europäischen Staaten und Länder enthält," compared

1809-554: The Mendelssohn & Co. banking house. Moses Mendelssohn was born in Dessau . His father's name was Mendel, but Moses and his brother Saul were the first to adopt the surname Mendelssohn ("Mendel's son"). Moses's son Abraham Mendelssohn wrote in 1829 (to Felix), "My father felt that the name Moses Ben Mendel Dessau would handicap him in gaining the needed access to those who had the better education at their disposal. Without any fear that his own father would take offense, my father assumed

1876-552: The Philanthropinum in Dessau, especially in the fields of geography and history . Here he also wrote his first publication, entitled "Über das Verhältnis des Erziehers zu seinen Zöglingen" (On the relationship of the teacher to his pupils). Crome also promoted the ideas for Jewish emancipation of his friend Christian Wilhelm von Dohm . Another of his respected colleague was Christian Gotthilf Salzmann . In Dessau Crome developed

1943-496: The Wartburg Festival in 1817. In his 1817 book "Deutschlands und Europas Staats- und Nationalinteresse" ( Germany and Europe Heads of State and National Interest ), Crome expressed an altered view without commenting his change of opinion. He lashed out at the infamous French secret police, and warned now against a foreign protector power. Heinrich von Treitschke commented that, the "infamous Bonapartist" only dressed up with

2010-564: The pie chart , which William Playfair had introduced in his "Statistical Breviary" in 1801. In 1787 Crome accepted professorship at the University of Giessen, partly offered to him partly because of his rhetorical talent. On the road, he briefly visited Weimar and met Christoph Martin Wieland and Johann Karl August Musäus . His Latin inaugural treated the relationship between politics and statistics. More than 40 years (until 1830) he practiced

2077-586: The Condition of the Jews , which played a significant part in the rise of tolerance. Mendelssohn himself published a German translation of the Vindiciae Judaeorum by Menasseh Ben Israel . The interest caused by these actions led Mendelssohn to publish his most important contribution to the problems connected with the position of Judaism in a Gentile world. This was Jerusalem (1783; Eng. trans. 1838 and 1852). It

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2144-697: The French staff officer and later Baron de Larroque. Crome married in 1805, at the age of 52 years, with Demoiselle Dorette Wagner (1778-1857). She was a niece of captain Carl Ludwig Buff (1769-1841) in Wetzlar, a longtime friend Crome. In their house he had seen his future bride for the first time. Carl Ludwig Buff was the older brother of Charlotte Buff , the novelist of Werther , and the father of chemist Heinrich Buff. Crome's marriage remained childless. His far younger wife survived him by 19 years. In his journal Germania Crome had acknowledge to be supporter of

2211-467: The Nazi era, after German reunification , in 2007-2008, it was reestablished with monuments to its past, including a recreation of Mendelssohn's gravestone. It was after the breakdown of his health that Mendelssohn decided to "dedicate the remains of my strength for the benefit of my children or a goodly portion of my nation"—which he did by trying to bring the Jews closer to "culture, from which my nation, alas!

2278-638: The Papacy, so Mendelssohn overthrew the Talmud ; and he did so after the same fashion, namely, by rejecting tradition, by declaring the Bible to be the source of religion, and by translating the most important part of it. By these means he shattered Judaic, as Luther had shattered Christian, catholicism ; for the Talmud is, in fact, the catholicism of the Jews." Mendelssohn grew ever more famous, and counted among his friends many of

2345-528: The University of Halle, Crome became private tutor for some time in Berlin and Brandenburg . He continued his theological studies, preached frequently, as he wrote "not without applause", and passed upon a trial sermon for his theological examination. He didn't accept a position offered as a pastor, but remained a private tutor instead, as of May 1775, at the home of Baron von Bismarck in Schönhausen. One of his pupils

2412-564: The advice of Crome the French changed their plans and chose instead of Darmstadt, at that time only weakly occupied by the Austrians, Mannheim as their headquarters. The secret pacification treaty with the Landlords was completed. Crome continued negotiations in Mannheim, and became an intimate in the circles of the French generals and politicians. His youngest sister Christiana Dorothea married in 1799

2479-525: The already famous Jewish philosopher with some companions. They insisted on Mendelssohn telling them his views on Jesus and managed to get from him the statement, that, provided the historical Jesus had kept himself and his theology strictly within limits of orthodox Judaism, Mendelssohn "respected the morality of Jesus' character." Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet 's essay on Christian Evidences, with

2546-777: The body of an Aesop [who was traditionally considered ugly]—a man of keen insight, exquisite taste and wide erudition [...] frank and open-hearted" —ending his public praise with the wish of Mendelssohn recognizing, "together with Plato and Moses... the crucified glory of Christ." When, in 1775 the Swiss-German Jews, faced with the threat of expulsion, turned to Mendelssohn and asked him to intervene on their behalf with "his friend" Lavater, Lavater, after receiving Mendelssohn's letter, promptly and effectively secured their stay. In March 1771 Mendelssohn's health deteriorated so badly that Marcus Elieser Bloch , his doctor, decided his patient had to give up philosophy, at least temporarily. After

2613-409: The centuries." A refugee Polish Jew, Israel Zamosz , taught him mathematics, and a young Jewish physician taught him Latin . He was, however, mainly self-taught. He learned to spell and to philosophize at the same time (according to the historian Graetz ). With his scanty earnings he bought a Latin copy of John Locke 's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , and mastered it with the aid of

2680-483: The charm of its Greek exemplar and impressed the German world with its beauty and lucidity of style. Phaedo was an immediate success, and besides being one of the most widely read books of its time in German was speedily translated into several European languages, including English . The author was hailed as the "German Plato", or the "German Socrates"; royal and other aristocratic friends showered attentions on him, and it

2747-422: The cry "Love truth, love peace!"—in a quote from Zacharias 8:19. Kant called this "the proclamation of a great reform, which, however, will be slow in manifestation and in progress, and which will affect not only your people but others as well." Mendelssohn asserted the pragmatic principle of the possible plurality of truths: that just as various nations need different constitutions—to one a monarchy , to another

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2814-523: The devil). His mother Christiane Lucretia, born Büsching, was a pastor's daughter from Stadthagen. In his autobiography (1833) Crome praised the simple life at home, which gave him "a good foundation for a physically strong constitution. Its pure unadulterated sense was connected with true religion of the heart." Together with his brother Heinrich he was tutored by his father until university entrance. His brother Heinrich later studied law in Göttingen and became

2881-435: The disease as due to 'congestion of blood in the brain' (a meaningless diagnosis in modern medical practice as such congestion is anatomically impossible), and after some controversy this diagnosis was also accepted by the famous Hanoverian court physician, Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann , an admirer of Mendelssohn. In retrospect, his illness might be diagnosed as a heart-rhythm-problem (such as atrial fibrillation ) and/or

2948-665: The economic rise of the United States and defended their right to independence. In 1783 in Dessau he met the French Enlightenment writer Guillaume Thomas François Raynal . The honors he received included membership in the Imperial Free Economic Society to St. Petersburg and the Academy of Public Sciences to Erfurt, as well as the philosophical honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen . The appeal to join

3015-560: The first bar charts and area charts . His political concern was the Enlightenment, the defense of press freedom and public education, in particular by free availability of statistical data. In 1790 Crome had joined, at his request as consulting scholar, the Saxony legislate that traveled to Frankfurt to meet Leopold II . A friend reported him unsolicited for an audience. The Emperor, to that date, Grand Duke of Tuscany, commissioned him after

3082-469: The first modern public school for Jewish boys, "Freyschule für Knaben", in Berlin in 1778 by one of his most ardent pupils, David Friedländer , where both religious and worldly subjects were taught. Mendelssohn also tried to better the Jews' situation in general by furthering their rights and acceptance. He induced Christian Wilhelm von Dohm to publish in 1781 his work, On the Civil Amelioration of

3149-430: The great figures of his time. But his final years were overshadowed and saddened by the so-called pantheism controversy . Ever since his friend Lessing had died, he had wanted to write an essay or a book about his character. When Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , an acquaintance of both men, heard of Mendelssohn's project, he stated that he had confidential information about Lessing being a " Spinozist ", which, in these years,

3216-401: The great man without falling into the ridiculous idea that I must convert a Solon or a Confucius." The ongoing public controversy cost Mendelssohn much time, energy and strength. Lavater later described Mendelssohn in his book on physiognomy , Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (1775–1778), as "a companionable, brilliant soul, with piercing eyes,

3283-473: The major works of his later career. Mendelssohn died on 4 January 1786 as the result (it was thought at the time) of a cold contracted while carrying a manuscript (his reply to Jacobi, titled To Lessing's Friends (An die Freunde Lessings) ) to his publishers on New Year's Eve; Jacobi was held by some to have been responsible for his death. He was buried in the Jewish Cemetery of Berlin. The translation of

3350-497: The mantle of German patriotism. From the perspective of modern research, it could be considered a pragmatic and rationalistic perspective, that Crome advocates a cautious reform policy of small steps. In the first session of the State Parliament of Hesse (1821) Crome received much sympathy, particularly for the public presenting his views. Moses Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729  – 4 January 1786)

3417-422: The name Mendelssohn. The change, though a small one, was decisive." Mendel was an impoverished scribe —a writer of Torah scrolls—and his son Moses in his boyhood developed curvature of the spine . Moses' early education was provided by his father and by the local rabbi, David Fränkel , who, besides teaching him the Bible and Talmud , introduced to him the philosophy of Maimonides . In 1743 Fränkel received

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3484-451: The new title "Verhältniss=Karte von Europa." This map was accompanied by the 1818 publication of the book "Allgemeine Uebersicht der Staatskräfte von den sämmtlichen europäischen Reichen und Ländern," in which the subject and the map content was further explained. In compare to the 1785 map, a series of pie charts were added in a separate frame. This was in Europe one of the first applications of

3551-415: The professorship at the same place despite numerous calls from Berlin, Leipzig, Göttingen, Marburg, Greifswald, Basel and others. His scientific achievements as reformer in the field of mercantilism were less driven by theoretical originality, but rather through practical usefulness, educational preparation and thoroughness. He constantly developed new methods of statistical representation, including one of

3618-475: The realization of his dream. Within a few months, the two became closely intellectually allied. Lessing also brought Mendelssohn to public attention for the first time: Mendelssohn had written an essay attacking Germans' neglect of their native philosophers (principally Gottfried Leibniz ), and lent the manuscript to Lessing. Without consulting the author, Lessing published Mendelssohn's Philosophical Conversations ( Philosophische Gespräche ) anonymously in 1755. In

3685-458: The religion of its citizens, Jews included. While it proclaims the mandatory character of Jewish law for all Jews (including, based on Mendelssohn's understanding of the New Testament , those converted to Christianity), it does not grant the rabbinate the right to punish Jews for deviating from it. He maintained that Judaism was less a "divine need, than a revealed life". Jerusalem concludes with

3752-760: The same year there appeared in Danzig (now Gdańsk , Poland) an anonymous satire, Pope a Metaphysician ( Pope ein Metaphysiker ), which turned out to be the joint work of Lessing and Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn became the leading spirit of Friedrich Nicolai 's important literary undertakings, the Bibliothek and the Literaturbriefe , and ran some risk by criticizing the poems of Frederick II, King of Prussia; Frederick’s good nature kept him out of trouble. In 1762 he married Fromet Guggenheim, who survived him by twenty-six years. In

3819-475: The size of the countries and the size of its population of all states and countries in Europe. This map was another example of a new representations in political economy, and would inspire a new generation of cartographers, such as Alexander von Humboldt in Germany, and Charles Dupin in France. In the years 1818 Comte published a new extended version of his then 25-year-old map "Groessen-Karte von Europa," under

3886-480: The victory of the coalition at Leipzig, Crome subsequently became subject of massive attacks from the Rheinischer Merkur newspaper from Koblenz. Particularly Joseph Görres and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher called him a "scoundrel". On charges of treason Fatherland, among others by August von Kotzebue , even a death threat followed, and finally the burning on Crome's writings by radical nationalist students at

3953-481: The work, which would make his fame: the first product map of Europe (1782), entitled "Neue Carte Von Europa welche die merkwürdigsten Producte und vornehmsten Handelspläze nebst dem Flächen-Inhalt aller Europäischer Länder in deutschen Quadrat-Meilen enthält" (New map of Europe which contains the strangest and most prestigious products of trading places together with the surface content of all European countries in German square miles). This map showed for all parts of Europe

4020-600: The year following his marriage Mendelssohn won the prize offered by the Berlin Academy for an essay on the application of mathematical proofs to metaphysics , On Evidence in the Metaphysical Sciences ; among the competitors were Thomas Abbt and Immanuel Kant , who came second. In October 1763 the king granted Mendelssohn, but not his wife or children, the privilege of Protected Jew ( Schutzjude ), which assured his right to undisturbed residence in Berlin. As

4087-561: Was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian . His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah , or 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau , Principality of Anhalt , and originally destined for a rabbinical career, Mendelssohn educated himself in German thought and literature. Through his writings on philosophy and religion he came to be regarded as

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4154-404: Was a self-confessed "pantheist" in the sense of "atheist". Mendelssohn was thus drawn into a poisonous literary controversy, and found himself attacked from all sides, including former friends or acquaintances such as Johann Gottfried von Herder and Johann Georg Hamann . Mendelssohn's contribution to this debate, To Lessing's Friends (An die Freunde Lessings) (1786), was his last work, completed

4221-519: Was in an elegant High German, designed to allow Jews to learn the language faster. Most of the German Jews in that period spoke Yiddish and many were literate in Hebrew (the language of Jewish scripture, liturgy, and scholarship). The commentary was also thoroughly rabbinic, quoting mainly from medieval exegetes but also from Talmud-era midrashim . Mendelssohn is also believed to be behind the foundation of

4288-452: Was regarded as being more or less synonymous with " atheist "—something which Lessing was accused of being anyway by religious circles. This led to an exchange of letters between Jacobi and Mendelssohn which showed they had hardly any common ground. Mendelssohn then published his Morgenstunden oder Vorlesungen über das Dasein Gottes ( Morning hours or lectures about God's existence ), seemingly

4355-466: Was said that "no stranger who came to Berlin failed to pay his personal respects to the German Socrates." So far, Mendelssohn had devoted his talents to philosophy and criticism ; now, however, an incident turned the current of his life in the direction of the cause of Judaism . In April 1763, Johann Kaspar Lavater , then a young theology-student from Zurich, made a trip to Berlin, where he visited

4422-411: Was the father of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn ), and Nathan (a mechanical engineer of considerable repute). His daughters were Brendel (later Dorothea; the wife of Simon Veit and mother of Philipp Veit , subsequently the mistress, and then wife, of Friedrich von Schlegel ), Recha and Henriette, all gifted women. Recha's only grandson (son of Heinrich Beer, brother of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer ),

4489-489: Was the father of the future Chancellor. Crome's uncle Büsching introduced him to the Berlin Enlightenment circle around Moses Mendelssohn and Christoph Friedrich Nicolai . Crome later reported anecdotally, that one day he had been invited by his uncle in Berlin to present an afternoon trial sermon on the "value of suffering" in the presence of several civil servants. In the foregoing of lunch it however turned into

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