Bruno Bauer (1809 to 1882) was a German philosopher, theologian and historian, born in Eisenberg in Thuringia. A student of Hegel in Berlin, he began as a right-wing Hegelian and by 1839 had moved to the left, becoming a leading Young Hegelian and a radical critic of the Bible and of Christianity. He argued that the gospels were literary works of human self-consciousness rather than historical records, a view that cost him his licence to teach theology in 1842, and he built a republican politics on the idea of infinite self-consciousness. His close and stormy relationship with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ended in their polemic The Holy Family. After the defeats of 1848 he turned to conservative themes and predicted a general crisis of European civilization, writings that influenced Nietzsche.
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Bruno Bauer was born on 6 September 1809 in Eisenberg, Thuringia
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Bruno Bauer (6 September 1809-13 April 1882) was a philosopher
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He was transferred to the theology faculty at Bonn
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Bauer was a leader of the Left-Hegelian movement
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he lectured on theology and biblical texts in Berlin
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was a German philosopher, theologian, and historian
Early life and Hegelian studies
Bruno Bauer was born on 6 September 1809 in Eisenberg, Thuringia
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he became a radical rationalist critic of the Bible and Christianity
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a prominent member of the Young Hegelians
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a prominent member of the Young Hegelians
Influenced By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lead, student of Hegel
Initially a student of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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he became a radical rationalist critic of the Bible and Christianity
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