Edwin Bormann

After he had to abandon architectural studies begun in 1867 at the Dresden University of Technology for health reasons, he studied Natural Sciences, History of Art, Germanistics and philosophy at the University of Leipzig and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1869 to 1875.

The title of his book Jedes Thierchen hat sein Pläsierchen entered the German treasure trove of quotations.

[3] In several publications, he also advocated the so-called Shakespeare-Bacon theory, which considers Francis Bacon to be the author of the works published under the name of the actor William Shakespeare.

In contrast to other proponents of the theory, he tried — by his own admission — to prove it by showing an indissoluble connection between Shakespeare's poetry and Bacon's scientific-philosophical works.

Thus, he argued, The Tempest was a parable for Bacon's natural philosophy, King Lear for economics and Hamlet for anthropology.