Georg Hermes

Georg Hermes ( born April 22, 1775 in Dreierwalde, † May 26, 1831 in Bonn) was a Catholic theologian and philosopher.

Life

Georg Hermes studied as a son of a farmer at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, theology and philosophy from 1792 to 1798. He first took a job as a high school teacher on (1798 ). ' In 1799 he was ordained a priest. After the publication of his first work, the study of the inner truth of Christianity, he was at Münster, he was appointed in 1807 as professor of dogmatics.

Since 1820 he taught at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms University in Bonn. The cathedral chapter, he was a member from 1825. Hermes was a pupil of Ferdinand above water. As a representative of a Catholic education, he established the so-called Hermesianism, a kritizistisches, psychological and anthropocentric system for rational justification of the Catholic faith.

The Hermesianism contained as a fundamental feature to overcome the moral teaching in their religious motives in Immanuel Kant His teaching was mainly due to the schools in Prussia large spread, which was sponsored by the Archbishop of Cologne, Ferdinand August von Spiegel. The doctrine of Hermesianism in 1835 by Pope Gregory XVI. prohibited by the Breve Dum acerbissimas. His works have been placed on the Index of Forbidden Books.

The Prussian State, which supported the Hermesianism, found in the Cologne Archbishop Clemens August Droste zu Vischering a bitter opponents. The conflict escalated in the so-called "Cologne troubles". Droste Vischering 1837 arrested and taken in Minden in imprisonment.

Zealous defenders of Hermesianism were Clemens August von Droste zu Hulshoff, a cousin of the poet Annette von Droste- Hulshoff, and Peter Joseph Elvenich.

Works

• Study of the inner truth of Christianity, 1804
• Introduction to the Christian Catholic theology, 2 volumes, 1819 to 1829
• Old Catholic dogma, Edited by Johann Heinrich Achterfeld, 3 volumes, 1834-1835