Hermann Daniel Hermes (24 January 1734 – 12 November 1807) was a Prussian protestant theologian.
[1][2] Towards the end of his life he became caught up in the campaign for a return to religious orthodoxy pursued by the Rosicrucian politician Johann Christoph von Wöllner, being employed as an "inquisitor" in 1794 in Halle,[3] and elsewhere.
Hermann Daniel Hermes was born in Petznick, a village near Stargard in Western Pomerania.
At this stage, there was no sign of the obsessive hostility to new thinking which would become a defining feature of his work after he came under the influence of Wöllner.
Much of his later career awaits further modern research, although his prominent role in the anti-enlightenment fundamentalist government mandated "crusading" of the 1790s has recently formed the basis for an historically based novel (in Polish) by the Breslau/Wrocław writer Henryk Waniek.