Daumer, Georg Friedrich

Daumer, Georg Friedrich a Roman Catholic convert of Germany, was born at Nuremberg, March 5, 1800. He commenced studying theology at Erlangen, where he belonged to the so-called pietists. The lectures of Schelling made him give up theology, which he exchanged. at Leipsic for philology. In 1822 he was appointed teacher at the Latin school, and in 1827 at the gymnasium of his native place. In 1833 he resigned his position, joined in 1858 the Roman Catholic Church, and died December 14, 1875, at Wurzburg. He published, Urgeschichte des Menschengeistes (Nurnberg, 1827): — Philosophie, Religion und Alterthum (1833): — Ueber die Entwendung agyptischen Eigenthums heim Auszug der Israeliten aus Egyptent (ibid.): — Polemische Blatter, betreffend Christenthum, Bibelglauben und Theologie (ibid. 1834): — Zuge zu einer neuen Philosophic der Religion und Religionsgeschichte (ibid. 1835): — Anthropologismus und Kriticismus der Gegenwart (ibid. 1844): — Die Stimme der Warheit in den religiosen und confessionellen Kampfen der Gegenwart (ibid. 1845): — Sabbath, Moloch und Tabu (ibid. 1839): — Der Feuer- und Molochdienst der alten Hebraer (Braunschweig, 1842): — Die Geheimnisse des christlichen Alterthums (Hamburg, 1847, 2 volumes): — Die Religion des neuene

Weltalters (ibid. 1850, 3 volumes): — Meine Conversion Ein Stuck Seelen- und Zeitgeschichte (Mayence, 1859). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:265; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:197 sq.; Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religienses, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)