biography
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Hamann, Johann Georg
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nickname the Magus des Nordens (the ‘Nordic Magus’)
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pronunciation:
[hahman]
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| lived:
| (1730–88)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). A visit to London in 1758 after theological and other studies led him to intensified study of the Bible and a turn to the irrational. He sought a comprehensive religious renewal of life through the word of God and viewed art as an expression of man in his totality. He exercised significant influence on the emotionally radical literary movements ‘Sturm und Drang’ and Romanticism. His Sokratische Denkwürdigkeiten für die lange Weile des Publikums zusammengetragen von einem Liebhaber der langen Weile (1759) and Kreuzzüge des Philologen (1762) evince profound thinking couched in oracular terms. |
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