Karl Theodor Bayrhoffer, a German philosopher and politician, born in Marburg in 1812. He studied law, but devoted himself subsequently to philosophy, on which subject he began to lecture in 1834 in Marburg, where in 1838 he received the appointment of special and in 1845 of permanent professor at the university. He advocated the views of Hegel, and in 1849 published in the Jahrbucher fur Wissenschaft und Leben a series of papers under the name of Untersuclivngen fiber Wesen, Geschichte und Kritik der Religion, in elucidation of his views of the Marburg Lichtfreunde, and of the other new religious organization which grew out of the German Catholic movement, He took a prominent part in the revolutionary movements of 1848, and in November of that year was made a member of the diet of Hesse-Cassel, in which body he was the leader of the democratic party, and for a short time president of the chamber; but after the defeat of the democratic party he went to Paris and afterward to America.

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