Friedrich Christian Baumeister

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Name Friedrich Baumeister

Died October 8, 1785, Gorlitz, Germany

Friedrich Christian Baumeister (17 July 1709 – 8 October 1785) was a German philosopher.

Baumeister studied philosophy in Jena and Wittenberg. He became director of the Gorlitz gymnasium in 1736. His textbooks propagated the metaphysics of Christian Wolff.

Works

Philosophia definitiva, 1735. 1767 edition available online

Institutiones philosophiae rationalis : methodo Wolfii conscriptae, 1735

Institutiones metaphysicae : ontologiam, cosmologiam, psychologiam, theologiam denique naturalem complexae, 1738 and 1751

Historia doctrinae de mundo optimo, 1741

Elementa philosophiae recentioris : usibus iuventutis scholasticae accommodata, 1747

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