 As the daughter of the greatest - Moses Mendelssohn - (translator of John Locke and Alexander Pope, as well as Hebrew scriptures into German), Dorothea was surrounded throughout her life by poets, critics, musicians, novelists, and philosophers of Europe.Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was her father's closest friend and colleague, and the Emancipation and secularization of the Jews and Jewish culture was a direct outcome of their work.