Hermann Baumgarten
Hermann Baumgarten was a German historian and a political publicist whose work had a major impact on liberalism during the unification of Germany. Baumgartens philosophy also created a significant political impression on Max Weber, an influential social theorist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Hermann Baumgarten was born in Wolfenbttel in the Duchy of Brunswick. He studied philology and history at the University of Jena before becoming a journalist in 1855. In 1859 he began working at Maximilian Dunckers literary bureau, a Prussian institution used to disseminate propaganda. In 1861, he also took up a teaching post at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.
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