Life

His father Joseph Veit was a banker and his brother Simon Veit was the husband of Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn

Moses Mendelssohn was a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the renaissance of European Jews, Haskalah is indebted...

's daughter Dorothea Schlegel, making David uncle to the painter Philipp Veit

Philipp Veit

Philipp Veit was a German Romantic painter. To Veit is due the credit of having been the first to revive the almost forgotten technique of fresco painting.- Biography :Veit was born in Berlin, Prussia...

. 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

Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus

Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus was a German physician, natural historian and economist. He was the son of Hermann Samuel Reimarus, the brother of the writer Elise Reimarus and the father of Johanna Reimarius, who married Georg Heinrich Sieveking...

, Friedrich Christoph Perthes

Friedrich Christoph Perthes

Friedrich Christoph Perthes was a German publisher, nephew of Johan Georg Perthes.Perthes was born at Rudolstadtin Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice in the service of Adam Friedrich Bohme, a bookseller in Leipzig, with whom he remained for about six years...

, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi was an influential German philosopher, literary figure, socialite and the younger brother of poet Johann Georg Jacobi...

 and Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant...

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Works

• De organorum corporis humani tam energia seu activitate interna quam cum organis sociis connexione sen sympathia, Halle 1797
• Allgemeine theoretische und praktische Grundsätze der chemischen Affinität oder Wahlanziehung zum gemeinnützigen Gebrauch für Naturforscher, Chemisten, Aerzte und Apotheker, Berlin 1794
• J. A. H. Reimarus nach zurückgelegten Fünfzig Jahren seiner medizinischen Laufbahn. Ein biographischer Beytrag zur Feyer des 29. Aprils, Hamburg 1807