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Bauer, Bruno
Bruno Bauer (born in Eisenberg, Thuringia, 1809; died in Berlin, 1882) was a student of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a leader of the Young Hegelians before the Revolutions of 1848, and a theologian, historian, and philosopher. His major works include Critique of the Synoptic Gospels (3 vols., 1841–42); anonymously, the mock-pietistic Trumpet of the Last Judgement upon Hegel, Atheist and Antichrist (1841); Christianity Revealed (1843); and multivolume histories of the French Revolution. In 1842, he was dismissed from the University of Bonn, allegedly for religious heterodoxy but directly on the order of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV for public criticisms of the regime.
In his theological investigations, Bauer concluded that the gospel accounts were purely fictitious, and he denied the historical existence of Jesus. Bauer ...
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