The German religious philosopher and writer trying to conceive a new religious conviction, with he had traced in the history of a so-called destruction of religious conviction. Because of his experience, Daumer Erlanger became a sharp critic of Protestant Christianity, especially of pietism. Then he eventually converted to Catholicism. Daumer’s masterpiece “The Secrets of Christian remains,” published in 1847. Georg Friedrich Daumer took the foundling Kaspar Hauser and open psychological and learning testing on him. Daumer went forth as a poet above all with like poems and translations of oriental poetry. About 50 of his poems and translations have been set to music by Johannes Brahms …
Georg Friedrich Daumer was on 5 March 1800, born the third of six children of a wealthy fur trader, in Nuremberg.
Daumer attended high school and graduated from high school. He then studied theology in Erlangen, but he soon went on to philosophy. In 1823 he was in his native city of Nuremberg a job as a school teacher. But with a few years he resigned this activity, to deal exclusively with the study of religious and intellectual history. Daumer got into a confrontation between traditional beliefs and contemporary view of modern rationalist materialism, in order to renovate its own position. This search for one’s own intuition about the relationship of world and life phenomena were accompanied by public polemics.
He was often in his mental attitude and his ways of thought ahead of his time. Initially distinguished himself as Daumer outspoken opponent of Christianity. Besides religious writings, he wrote like poems and poems with Hafisthemen, the positively received and partially set to music by Johannes Brahms were. Often published under pseudonyms, Eusebius Daumer Emenran or Amadeus Ottokar. Daumer took care of the six-year-ancient foundling Kaspar Hauser, who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828 the public be really neglected youth. Hauser was said to have been held for years and had lived in that time without human contact.
His vocabulary was limited to around 50 words. He was Daumer, his first teacher, was placed in the care. Kaspar Hauser met by the former school professor to speak properly again. In addition, the teacher encouraged him in his entire personal development, so that houses again came to a self-esteem. Daumer and the Nuremberg city coroner Dr Preu Hauser also open with psychological and pedagogical experiments. With two inexplicable murders in the years 1829 and 1831, the boulder was transferred to Ansbach. Daumer suspected that it is Kaspar Hauser at the 29 Dignified 1812 could have born son of the Grand Duke of Baden traded, which should have been reversed because of the charm in aristocratic period with a dead child.
Nevertheless, the origin of the boulder was not clarified until now. In the report felt Daumer a “religious destruction” with. This was the work of “Fire and Moloch of the Hebrews.” Daumer’s major work, the “secrets of Christian remains” was released in 1847 and his reckoning with Christianity. He claimed that the Christians would have offered far beyond the early days of child sacrifice, according to he interpreted the words of Jesus, “Suffer the small children come unto me” around. Unlike its imitators equally anti-Christian Friedrich Nietzsche, he took his criticism of the person of Jesus is not enough. The fundamental thesis of his work was that Christian remains was essentially Moloch with centuries of continued ritual cannibalism.
In 1850 he set about trying to make a new religious conviction. Daumer 1859 converted to Catholicism. Although he was regarded as an opponent of the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach and the theologian and philosopher David Friedrich Strauss, he was a forerunner in the criticism of the Bible, just as it was later initiated by Strauss and operated. Daumer’s other works contain among others the title “Religious conviction of the new age” (1850) and “Christianity and its authors” (1864).
Georg Friedrich Daumer died on 13 December 1875 in Wuerzburg.
