Bruno Bauer | |
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| Born | September 6, 1809 Eisenberg, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | April 13, 1882 Rixdorf, Berlin, German Empire |
| Alma mater | Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin |
| School tradition | Young Hegelians |
| Language | German |
| Notable students | Karl Marx |
Bruno Bauer (September 6, 1809 — April 13, 1882) was a Young Hegelian. His main areas were German philosophy and theology. Bauer argued that early Christianity owed more to ancient Greek philosophy than to Judaism. Starting in 1840, he began a series of works arguing that Jesus was a 2nd-century fusion of Jewish, Greek, and Roman theology.
Bauer is often associated with antisemitism. Bauer's view of Jews and Judaism was absolutely negative. In 1843, Bauer wrote The Jewish Question, which was responded to in a pamphlet written by Karl Marx, entitled, "On the Jewish Question". Bauer argued that the Jews were responsible for their own misfortunes in European society since they had "made their nest in the pores and interstices of bourgeois society".
Bauer was born in Eisenberg in 1809. Bauer studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. He became associated with the Right Hegelians with whom he helped edit the second edition of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. Bauer was a teacher, mentor and close friend of Karl Marx, but they came to a break. Bauer rejected Marx's political writings, and Marx and Engels responded with Bauer in two books: The Holy Family (1845) and The German Ideology (1846).
Bruno Bauer died at Rixdorf in 1882.