text: " Happily to keep him from absolute starvation he married the daughter of Moses Mendelsohn the Jewish philosopher who it appears had a few pence in her pocket but not many;[L] and between these and the produce of his own pen which could move with equal facility in French as in German he managed not merely to keep himself and his wife alive but to transport himself to Paris in the year 1802 and remain there for a year or two laying the foundation for that oriental evangel which in 1808 he proclaimed to his countrymen in the little book _Ueber die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier_