Hermann Samuel Reimarus
German philosopher
Died when: 73 years 70 days (878 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Hermann Samuel Reimarus (22 December 1694, Hamburg – 1 March 1768, Hamburg), was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who was remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and our own internal reality, thus eliminating the need for religions based on revelation.
He denied the supernatural origin of Christianity, and was the first influential critic to investigate the historical Jesus.According to Reimarus, Jesus was a mortal Jewish prophet, and the apostles founded Christianity as a religion separate from Jesus’ own ministry.
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