Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann Born (1730-08-27)27 August 1730 Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia Died 21 June 1788(1788-06-21) (aged 57) Münster, Prince-Bishopric of Münster Era 18th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy Influences Hume, Knutzen Influenced Goethe, Hegel, Herder, Jacobi, Kierkegaard, Schelling Johann Georg Hamann (German: [ˈhaːman]; 27 August 1730 – 21 June 1788) was a German philosopher, whose work was used by his student J. G. Herder as a main support of the Sturm und Drang movement, and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment. However, recent scholarship such as that by theologian Oswald Bayer places Hamann into a more nebulous category of theologian and philologist, less the proto-Romantic that Herder presented and more a premodern-postmodern thinker who brought the consequences of Lutheran theology to bear upon the burgeoning Enlightenment and especially in reaction to Kant. Goethe and Kierkegaard were among those who considered him to be the finest mind of his time.