About Friedrich Christian Baumeister
Lived 1709 – 1785 (aged 76). Friedrich Christian Baumeister was a German writer, philosopher and university teacher.
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 Görlitz 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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German philosopher
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Friedrich Christian Baumeister was born on 17 July 1709 in Körner.
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Friedrich Christian Baumeister died on 8 October 1785 in Görlitz.
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Friedrich Christian Baumeister was a writer, philosopher and university teacher.
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