Johann Georg Hamann was one of the most influential thinkers of the German Counter-Enlightenment movement. Born in 1730 in Königsberg, Prussia, he read an extraordinary amount of subjects at a young age from philology to law, yet he decided to forego completing college and instead took a job as a young governor to a wealthy family. As governor, Hamann seems to have continued his extraordinary amount of readings even as he took a new job from a friend named Christopher Berens to work for his family’s firm. This job sent Hamann on a mission that sent him in a spiral as he evidently failed it. He subsequently lived a life of leisure until he ran out of people to sponsor him and friends to help him. Finally waking up to reality, Hamann in his destitute and depressed state decided to turn to religion and read the bible extensively in search for some sort of religious experience which he experienced in droves. Hamman discovered a religious epiphany and religious enlightenment that defined much of philosophical ideas and writings. Hamann returned to the home of the Berens’ and was evidently forgiven as he was allowed back in the home, but he fell in love with the sister of his friend Christopher Berens who was an enthusiastic follower of the enlightenment. As a stringent follower of the enlightenment, Christopher ejected the marriage on the grounds of Hamann’s new pious beliefs that he found preposterous. Hamann eventually returned to the home of his father where he died on June 21, 1788, Although Hamann was pious, it is well known he had a partner who he never married but had four children with out of wedlock ironically. Although regarded as a genius by many famous philosophical titans such as Hegel, Goethe, and Herder, Hamann never held an official religious or academic post which most people attribute to a speech impediment. Impressively however, Hamann’s lack of academic or religious notoriety didn’t stop him from being one of the most read scholars during his life. He was known for his relationship with Immanuel Kant and Kant actually got him a job at a tax office of Frederick the Great, whom Hamann actually despised, but it was as an author and editor that Hamann spent most of his time. It is speculated that his wide knowledge of different languages allowed his texts to be more accessible and lead to his impressive scholarly notoriety. Hamann is widely considered one of the biggest inspirations for the German “Storm and Stress” movement and romanticism, more generally known as a figurehead of the German Counter Enlightenment, and considered an important friend and critic of Immanuel Kant. Hamann’s ideas regarding reason and the rejection of the epistemology of the Enlightenment philosophers, theology, and philosophy of language and linguistics are his major contributions to philosophy. Hamann is remembered much less than his friend Kant, but Hamann had an immutable and considerable contribution to the philosophy of his time and the philosophy that was to come.