DAUMER, GEORG FRIEDRICH German writer on religion, was born on March 5, 1800, at Nuremberg and died on Dec. 13, 1875, at Wurzburg. He was educated at Erlangen and Leipzig, and, forsaking his early pietism, violently opposed Christianity, especially in his Die Geheimnisse des christ lichen Altertums (1847) . After the publication of Religion des neuen Weltalters, 3 vols. (185o), Daumer approached Moham medanism in his poems, Mahomet (1848) and Liederbliiten der Hafis (1846-51). He became a Catholic in 1859, and wrote Das Wunder (1874) and Kaspar Hauser, sein Wesen, seine Unschuld (18 .