biography
pronunciation:
[bower]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1809–82)
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| biography:
| Protestant theologian and political journalist, born in Eisenberg, EC Germany. He lectured on theology in Berlin (from 1834) and Bonn (from 1839). Beginning as an orthodox follower of Hegel, he shifted towards the Left. Stripped in 1842 of his permission to teach, as a result of his fierce criticism of the Bible and denial of the historical existence of Jesus, he later became a radical atheist. His work Christus und die Cäsaren (1877) proved, through Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, an inspiration for Marxist socialism - which he himself rejected - and Friedrich Nietzsche's religious criticism. |
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