J. G. Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann was a German
pietist protestant, thinker, and friend of the
philosopher Immanuel Kant. His distrust of
reason led him conclude that a childlike faith in
God was the only
solution to the vexing problems of
philosophy. Also known by the epithet
Magus of the North, he was one of the precipitating forces for the counter-enlightenment.
He defended the letter h in a pamphlet New Apology of the Letter H.