Talk:Johann Georg Hamann

'Destined'
He was destined for the pulpit....
 * "Destined is incorrect here, implying as it does an ultimate outcome, perhaps foreshadowed in some mystical sense. But Hamann did not become a clergyman.
 * The German article, from which this one apparently was translated, says:
 * 1746 begann er an der Königlichen Albertus-Universität Königsberg Theologie zu studieren. Später wechselte er zur Rechtswissenschaft.
 * Accordingly, I changed our text to "Initially he studied theology at the University of Königsberg, but ...." – Sca (talk) 20:34, 14 September 2017 (UTC)