David Veit

David Veit (8 November 1771, in Breslau – 15 April 1814), was a German doctor and writer.

Life

His father Joseph Veit was a banker and his brother Simon Veit was the husband of Moses Mendelssohn's daughter Dorothea Schlegel, making David uncle to the painter Philipp Veit. During David Veit's time as a student he began a correspondence with Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, in which Veit also describes meeting the poet Goethe. Veit and Abraham Mendelssohn travelled to study in Paris, before Veit moved to Hamburg in 1799, where he worked as a doctor and writer and became associated with figures including Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus, Friedrich Christoph Perthes, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

Works

Bibliography

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/10/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.