Daumer

Daumer, GEORG FRIEDRICH, an able but eccentric German writer, was born in 1800 at Nuremberg, where for a time he was a professor in the gymnasium, and where Kaspar Hauser (q.v.) was committed to his care. Abandoning the piety of his student days, he passed through Schelling's philosophy to a position of bitter antagonism to Christianity, which he wished swept from the face of the earth; but in 1859 he joined the Ultramontane party, and became one of its foremost champions. His many philosophical writings reflect his varying positions; so late as 1847 he endeavoured to prove that among the ancient Jews and the Christians of the first century human sacrifice obtained; from 1859 he expounded and defended the faith. His poetical works, especially Mahomet (1848) and the Liederblüten des Hafis, two graceful imitations of Persian poetry, have gained a high reputation. Daumer died at Würzburg, 14th December 1875.