id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7697 Johann Georg Hamann - Wikipedia .html text/html 3643 647 60 Johann Georg Hamann (/ˈhɑːmən/; German: [ˈhaːman]; August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788) was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as "the Wizard of the North" who was one of the leader figures of post-Kantian philosophy. Initially he studied theology at the University of Königsberg,[10] but became a clerk in a mercantile house and afterward held many small public offices, devoting his leisure to reading philosophy.[11] His first publication was a study in political economy about a dispute on nobility and trade.[12] He wrote under the nom de plume of "the Magus of the North" (German: Magus im Norden).[11] Hamann was a believer in the Enlightenment until a mystical experience in London in 1758. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7697.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7697.txt