BAUER, BRUNO (1809-1882), German theologian and his torian, was born on Sept. 6, 1809, at Eisenberg in Saxe-Altenburg. He studied at Berlin, where he attached himself to the "Right" of the Hegelian school under P. Marheineke. In 1834 he began to teach in Berlin as a licentiate of theology, and in 1839 was transferred to Bonn. After the publication of his Kritik der evan gelischen Geschichte des Johannes (184o) and Kritik der evan gelischen Geschichte der Synoptiker (1841), with their destructive criticism, his licence was revoked, and he retired for the rest of his life to Rixdorf, near Berlin, where he died on April 13, 1882. The most important of his historical works is Geschichte der Politik, Kultur and Auf klarung des z8ten Jahrhunderts (4 vols.