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The German Enlightenment influenced both the Austrian and Jewish Enlightenments--though each developed under distinct conditions.

Austrian Enlightenment

Many Austrian thinkers were influenced by German ideas, but the Austrian Enlightenment was more pragmatic, Catholic, and authoritarian than the more theoretical and philosophical German one.

In his work about the Austrian Enlightenment, Ernst Wangermann distinguished, on one hand,

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