ABSTRACT
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer was a missionary with the Basel Mission Society from 1900 to 1911. He became a student at Oxford University in 1911 and eventually an academic and founder of a new religion called the German Faith Movement (DGB).1 Among German academics, Hauer is known primarily as having been a professor of religious studies2 and Indology (Indologie) at the University of Tübingen and, for a short time, at the University of Marburg (Werner 1986). The American Scott-Craig and the Englishman Davies (see Hauer et al. 1937:8), however, saw Hauer as a “prophet and leader” of a “Neo-Pagan religion.”3
