Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer
German philosopher and publicist
Died when: 75 years 112 days (903 months)Star Sign: Libra
Karl Theodor Otto Christian August Bayrhoffer (14 October 1812, in Marburg – 3 February 1888) was a German American philosopher, free-thinker, and publicist.In 1834 he received his PhD from the University of Marburg, where he later became a professor of philosophy.
In 1847 he founded the in Marburg.He became a member of the Diet of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) in 1848 and in 1850 was President of the Chamber.
After impeachment and the defeat of his party, he was imprisoned for a time before emigrating to the United States. and settling in Wisconsin as a farmer.
When his sons became old enough to manage the farm, he returned to his writing.In his early writings, notably in Die Idee und Geschichte der Philosophie ("Idea and History of Philosophy", 1838), he appears as a zealous disciple of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
Afterward he became a champion of German Catholicism and wrote Researches into the Essence, History, and Criticism of Religion (1849).
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